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Johnny Nelson's secret plan to winning world title - but Eric Cantona hopes were dashed
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dailystar.co.ukJohnny Nelson wanted to celebrate like Eric Cantona when he finally won the world title. Instead he dropped to the floor and started crying tears of joy.
It is 21 years today since the night the man from Sheffield who was harshly labelled a coward and a no-hoper reached the top of the world by beating Carl Thompson to win the WBO cruiserweight title.
Nelson, who was in his own words the personification of Brendan Ingle's Sheffield gym, had overcome the ridicule to rule as a world champion at the third attempt nine years after his first shot. “There are three poignant points in my life that changed my life and that was one of them,” said Nelson, who is now a regular on our screens as a Sky Sports pundit. “I had two roads to go down, if I
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