A dead boy, years of silence, a child fighting a 34-year-old and no medics to save young lives: Inside the Wild West of child combat sports - and why every parent should protect their kids from this unregulated scandal
It's the coat and the water bottle that I'll always remember. They belonged to Dominic Chapman, a young man who was drawn in by the slick marketing of one of the firms currently making a fortune out of unregulated 'white collar boxing.' He was killed by a blow to his head in the ring.
His devastated father, John, has kept those possessions exactly where he'd left them, at the dining room table of the modest family home in Worcester.
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