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Kem weighed-in this morning at 141 pounds, as did his opposition, the current champion. They both swaddled themselves in layers of tracksuits and began to jog in the morning sun. Kem found a sauna-like telephone booth, where he jogged in place, whilst his opponent bounced bizarrely in the cab of a pick-up truck.
Having urinated and spat for good measure, Kem stripped, towelled-off and crept onto the scales for 139 pounds. His strength was soon replenished at breakfast - each meal was supplemented with a drink claiming to contain the essence of chicklets.
Emyr, from England, has been with the camp for three months and will fight for the first time tonight. Napporn, at fourteen years old, will fight a second time. At twenty-one years old, Kem is a seasoned boxer, having already had sixty fights and held titles in lighter weight categories.
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