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Sportsactive: Boxing: City sluggers Float like a plc, sting like a stockbroker. Matthew Barbour goes ringside for a spot of white-collar boxing
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Boxing might not be the new golf just yet, but it's getting there.
A substantial minority of City slickers are stepping between the
ropes to get a piece of the action in one of the growing number of
back-to-basics boxing gyms, where there are few niceties and the only
kit you need is a mouthguard.
Although "white-collar boxing" has existed in the US for well over
a decade, in the UK the notion of bond brokers or management
consultants going straight from the office to the ringside is
...
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 "Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)")
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From the office to the ring.(News Ban Young Guns)
Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)
; Byline: By DUNCAN HIGGITT Western Mail White Collar Boxing is a new extreme fitness regime from the United States that trains participants as though they were taking part in a professional fight u before putting them in the ring for real. Features Editor Duncan aePunch DunkAE Higgitt has signed up
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City limbers up for all-female `white collar' boxing bout
The Independent on Sunday
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 "Daily Post (Liverpool, England)")
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No punches pulled in tie boxing; Neil Macdonald meets the men who swap their sharp suits for boxing gloves to work off the corporate aggression.(Features)
Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
; Byline: Neil Macdonald THE company director nods to the property developer, and their meeting begins. Each is cautious, cagy, probing for a weakness in the other, working hard to find an opening to exploit. First one presses his case, then the other replies, until the lawyer connects with a solid
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 "Wales On Sunday (Cardiff, Wales)")
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SMILE, YOU'RE IN BITE CLUB! Boxing dentists pulling teeth, not punches.(News)
Wales On Sunday (Cardiff, Wales)
; Byline: By CATHERINE EVANS THEY'LL knock your teeth out then give them a scale and polish-meet the boxing dentists! To their patients, Pamand Matt White are a quiet, professional couple. But when they're away from their surgery, these two like nothing better than to indulge in a spot of violence.
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 "The Mirror (London, England)")
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FIGHT CLUB WORKERS ARE SAVED BY THE BELT; EXCLUSIVE: White collar boxing hits Scotland.(News)
The Mirror (London, England)
; Byline: Ryan Parry HIGH-FLYING Scots businessmen are preparing to batter lumps out of each other in the boxing ring - to reduce their rocketing stress levels. Top lawyers, bankers, and chief executives are to go head-to-head in a brutal boxing frenzy designed to combat high-tension lifestyles.
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 "The Evening Standard (London, England)")
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PICK NIGHT.(Television Program Review)
The Evening Standard (London, England)
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A new image for the sport.(Features)
Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
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 "Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England)")
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Boxing: Seconds Out - Big Dig boxers pack a punch on DVDs.(Sport)
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