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The lead-up to Jones-Trinidad

By Kieran Mulvaney
Special to ESPN.com

Thursday, January 17, 2008

Tuesday's blog | Wednesday's blog | Friday's blog | Saturday's blog Thursday, 5:30 p.m. -- Hanging with the Blade You never know who you're going to bump into on fight week. On Wednesday evening, as I was walking out of the Affinia Hotel, where the media room is situated, I saw Iran "The Blade" Barkley sitting in a chair in the lobby. When I was really becoming turned on to boxing in the 1980s and early 1990s, much of the boxing world -- especially in Europe, where I lived -- revolved around ...

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