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‘I’m 36 but I’m still going to carry on boxing’
Redemption, hope and self-belief has taken John Harding Jr from a prison Cell to nights under the lights, fighting for the next generation
John Harding Jnr

THE desire to be better was all that was on John Harding Jnr’s mind when he made that lonely walk to the prison exit gates.

The world outside those four prison walls was about to hit him like no punch in a ring could ever make him feel.

It was called life.

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