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August 21, 2012 News & Features » Cover Story

Fighting Chance 

A ragtag team of young boxers and their coach become champions.

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Jerry Royster should be dead. He's been shot — point blank with a shotgun to the gut — and stricken with lung cancer. He's fallen two stories, through the roof on a construction job, and smashed his head on a steel…

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