Boxing: Our Knockout Honeymoon ; Forty-Eight Hours After Getting Married, Chris Burton Was Settling Down for a 10-Week Stay in a Hartlepool Caravan - Alone. Stuart Rayner Reports On the Lengths the North East's Top Heavyweights Have Gone to in the Hope of Being Pounds 25,000 Richer

The Journal › September 10, 2008

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MOST marriages are the prelude to a week or two in a luxurious hotel suite in some sundrenched city on the other side of the world. Forty-eight hours after his wedding, Chris Burton left his wife behind and moved into a caravan in Hartlepool.

It wasn't that the Darlington heavyweight had upset his bride, simply his plan to put romance on hold in readiness for what he hopes will be the three biggest fights of his fledgling professional boxing career.

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Boxing: Our Knockout Honeymoon ; Forty-Eight Hours After Getting Married, Chris Burton Was Settling Down for a 10-Week Stay in a Hartlepool Caravan - Alone. Stuart Rayner Reports On the Lengths the North East's Top Heavyweights Have Gone to in the Hope of Being Pounds 25,000 Richer

With pounds 25,000 on offer for a night's work at Newcastle Arena on Friday, the North East's representatives have made big sacrifices to get into prime condition. But Dave Ferguson's decision to quit his job at Gregg's looks fainthearted compared to Burton's appro...

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