The following is from the Independent.......In 2002 they were kids in the same gym, in the 2007 Amateur Boxing Association championships they fought, in 2008 one won a gold medal at the Olympics and on Saturday James DeGale and George Groves will fight in front of 18,000 people at the O2 Arena in Docklands.It is possible that there has never been a rivalry quite like this in British sport, two people with so much shared history from a time when they were anonymous little scrappers in the same tiny boxing gym, through to now when they have so much real hate for each other. They are now grown men and main attractions, but still hate like kids.At the Dale Youth amateur boxing club on the ground floor of Grenfell Tower, one of several grim blocks in the patch of land between Ladbroke Grove and Shepherd's Bush in west London, the gym's hefty blue door conceals a centre of often neglected excellence. Outside the gym the horizon is shaped by raised Tube lines and the grey Westway, which also serves as a towering roof for the vast traveller site in its shadow. Dale Youth is always full with fighting traveller boys.
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