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Mitchell new to boxing; not Banks Nov 14th 2012, 18:08 Heavyweight Seth Mitchell didn’t grow up around boxing like Johnathon Banks, his opponent on Saturday night (HBO, 10 ET/PT) at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, N.J., did. Mitchell was a high school football star and then a linebacker at Michigan State. He had his eyes on the NFL, but a knee injury killed that dream and he moved to boxing after graduating from college with a criminal justice degree. He didn’t model himself after any fighter in particular because he was too into football.

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