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László Papp: Facing the Best
The tenacious British middleweight boxer John Wright had no immediate reason to worry when, on familiar ground at the 1948 Olympic Games in London, he faced a young opponent named László Papp. Wright had, after all, amassed a sterling record of amateur performances, and he was heavily favored to defeat all comers. Papp, however, had himself earned an impressive record in his native Hungary, where he won 47 amateur bouts by knockout. He quickly defeated Wright for the Olympic gold medal and then returned to newly communist Hungary, where he found work as a deliveryman in Budapest, hauling heavy boxes ...(100 of 351 words)