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There are too many governing bodies. They're all corrupt. I think they have replaced the old Mobsters with the kind of 'corporate rule' of boxing.

Larry Merchant

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Larry Merchant
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: February 11
Journalist
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Brooklyn
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