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This was created as a present for Salvador Meza, a thoroughly jolly nice bloke and groovy artist whose cracking cartoony work can be seen here: [link] . I’ve been a fan of his boxing animal characters for a while now, and I was inspired to doodle a picture of my personal favourite, a bulldog by the name of Butcher (or Butch for short). I was really pleased with how it turned out, and it got me thinking about a possible rival for him to fight - and it occurred to me that a fitting opponent for a burly no-nonsense dog would be an equally burly no-nonsense moggy. So, to that end, I created the character of Rex - and rather than keep the two drawings as individual images, I thought it might be more interesting to put them both together as part of an old-fashioned promotional boxing poster type thing.

Aside from being a cringe-inducing pun, the name of the fictional venue is a little nod to another friend of mine, professional loony Paul Maxted (you know, over here: [link] ). Meanwhile, the date is a reference to a classic real-life boxing match. Five bonus points and a jelly baby to anyone who knows which one I’m on about.
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