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Old 19-05-2008, 17:55   #26 (permalink)
ScottishBhoy87
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Default Re: Tommy Burns loses fight with cancer

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Originally Posted by Cassius Marcellus View Post
Had to look in when I saw the title.

I only know one Tommy Burns, the ex-world heavyweight boxing champion. Battered so badly by Jack Johnson in Sydney on Boxing Day 1908, that the police stopped the fight and the filming. He died in 1955.

Tommy Burns = Celtic and Scotland legend mate, he passed away last Thursday morning
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