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Getting hit in the face for a good cause

By Paul E. Kandarian

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  May 13, 2012

Nick Rossi of Walpole is big — 6-foot-6, 270 pounds — a former defensive lineman at Boston College who’s always trained hard. But when he started training in January to box in the Haymakers, he found it the hardest yet. The event pits boxers, all with little to no boxing experience, against each other to raise money for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

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