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*whose aim was to promote ‘indigenous’ sports to counterbalance ‘foreign’ ones such as association football and rugby

I would say things like 'I am the greatest! I'm pretty! If you talk jive, you'll drop in five! I float like a butterfly, sting like a bee! I'm pretty!' When white people heard me talking like this, some said, 'That black man talks too much. He's bragging. But I have been so great in boxing they had to create an image like Rocky,...