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WHEN the meaty palm of Vasil Kamotskii, a 163kg, 34-year-old pig farmer from Siberia known as Dumpling, struck the tender cheek of the man who faced him, it sounded like a thunderclap.
Dumpling didn’t appear to expend much effort – he swung lazily, the way you might bat a fly.
