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Jamie Moore: Former boxing champion shot twice | |
(about 14 hours later) | |
Former European light-middleweight boxing champion Jamie Moore has been shot twice, according to the fighter he is training. | |
Birmingham middleweight Matthew Macklin tweeted that his trainer, Moore, from Salford, was attacked in the Spanish town of Marbella but he was "still in hospital but he's ok". | |
Moore, 35, has also tweeted: "Overwhelmed. Gutted and confused about what happened, but thank God I'm OK." | |
He thanked people for their support. | |
He said: "It's at times like this that you realise how well your thought of. | |
"I've had unbelievable support. Means a lot it really does." | |
Macklin recently appointed Moore, 35, as his trainer at his gym in Marbella. | |
Moore and Macklin are former opponents with their most memorable battle in 2006 that Moore won by a knockout. | |
Moore was due to be in Macklin's corner for his fight against Jorge Sebastian Heiiland in Dublin on 30 August. | Moore was due to be in Macklin's corner for his fight against Jorge Sebastian Heiiland in Dublin on 30 August. |