On an overcast morning in deepest Connecticut, Froch strode into a huge, black, stretched limousine in sunglasses, looking as though he was auditioning for the role played by Tom Cruise in a 2009 remake of 'Top Gun'.

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After all, this was 1986: IBM had just unveiled its first laptop, the Soviet Union was launching the Mir Space Station and Tom Cruise kept daring us to fly ever higher in the hit film "Top Gun".

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