The pair have joined up with Talon Boxing, who are based in the Lake Arrowhead mountains near Los Angeles.

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QinetiQ, a British firm which makes the widely used Talon robot (pictured above), has a new lightweight back-packable version called Dragon Runner.

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"There is just a lot of uncertainty right now and it shows with sector underperforming this year so far, " says Gleb Zarkh, an equity analyst with Talon Asset Management.

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It turned a ramshackle industry, in which old-growth forests were largely quarried for their use in making talon, into an industry in which the trees themselves became the marketable product.

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The BBC's Vincent Nnanna, in Cotonou, says the accountant is the head of a major business and an associate of Patrice Talon, the man being held in connection with the 2012 poison plot.

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Hope says that training at Talon Boxing is very different to his former camp at the Calzaghe gym in Newbridge, where he used to work alongside the likes of Joe Calzaghe and Enzo Maccarinelli.

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