Alan Hubbard: The boxers who literally became freedom fighters

Alan Hubbard: The boxers who literally became freedom fighters

For years now exiles and émigrés have been a major component in the rich fabric of boxing, dating back well before the lifting of the Iron Curtain in 1991. This opened the floodgates for such as the Klitschkos and now those big-hitting Beasts from the East, Gennady Golovkin and Sergey Kovalev, to exert so much influence on the professional game.