The Hitman may have hit the deck, but 2007 was the year in which British boxing hit the heights. The battered old game’s comeback anticlimaxed when Ricky Hatton ran into a reality check in Las Vegas, but otherwise it was a prodigious 12 months which produced a record seven world champions, one of them Joe Calzaghe, voted the BBC Sports Personality of the Year, while the coach of the year just …

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