British boxer Balraj Khara has built his professional career around an apparent contradiction: hearing less, he believes, has taught him to concentrate more. The super-middleweight, who was born with a hearing impairment, does not regard partial hearing loss as something boxing has forced him to overcome. He considers it part of the reason he can do the job at all. There is something pleasingly inconvenient about that idea. Sport has long had a …
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