Ralph Oates
Ralph Oates is a former amateur boxer who has written a number of books on boxing. He also wrote articles for the British Boxing Board of Control Yearbook for 18 years. And he wrote a weekly boxing column for a local paper Essex Courier which ran for 3 years.
Oates recently supplied boxing questions for a national TV quiz show and is also the boxing consultant for the Guinness World Record books.
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