![]() ![]() Everything that has come out, how can anyone blame me for questioning it?' 'Then this guy beats me in two rounds - no-one buzzed my head like that before. 'One thing that has made me proud my whole career is I never got put down by a shot to the chin. 'I can't get it out of my mind,' he says. It is why Van Heerden is on the phone with Sportsmail from his home in California. Hell and maybe some other places, because who truly knows all the details about Conor Benn at this stage? But we do know what happened next on April 16, which is to say less than a minute into the second round, the son of a legend smacked Van Heerden into semi-consciousness with a head punch from hell. ![]() A victim's story in terms of what we will discuss here? We will not call it that. That is what experience looks like, the nous of a 35-year-old South African who had won 28 of 31 fights, had held a fringe world title at welterweight, and in bigger pictures had endured the murder of his father and beaten thoughts of suicide after a defeat in 2015. ![]()
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