The British Boxing Board of Control paid tribute to the former heavyweight champion, turned manager.

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They include a Liberty Township gym owner, a champion Cincinnati bodybuilder, a manager at LA Fitness in West Chester Township and an exotic dancer from Middletown.

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"All I kept thinking as I watched the presentation today was that Apple just pulled a Secretariat, " said John Loughlin, executive vice president and general manager of Hearst magazines, referring to the champion thoroughbred.

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Gans eventually sacked his manager, confessed to the fixed fights, won international recognition as a fine champion and was mourned by thousands, white and black, at his funeral in Baltimore, when he died from tuberculosis at the then typically early age of 35.

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