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Ukrainian faces 10th defence of his heavyweight crown against Britain's Chisora but these days his mind is more on fighting for democracy in his homeland.

Every evening Vitali Klitschko retires to his third-floor suite at the five-star spa resort in the Austrian Alps where he is preparing assiduously for next Saturday’s fight with Londoner Dereck Chisora, and dials a number in Kiev, the capital of his native Ukraine.

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