DANGEROUS: Benn is scheduled to fight Sakio Bika over 10 rounds, with 12oz gloves, in Birmingham on November 23
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NIGEL BENN is boxing again not for money or attention but closure. The thought of finding it was enough to have him welling up at a press conference last Thursday (September 26).
With once-fierce eyes filled with tears it became hard not to relate to him on a human level and easier to understand why, at 55, Benn wants to box Sakio Bika in a bout licenced by the British and Irish Boxing Authority (BIBA) on November 23.