“I was always fighting from a young age… I wouldn’t back down, I knew Andy wouldn’t have backed down.”

—  Nigel Benn

Describing the motivation behind him, Andy his older brother who passed away when he was young http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/programmes/my_childhood/episode04.shtml

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