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Wheatman 'The Machine's' Biographer  Interview with Ian
Freeman's biographer Stuart Wheatman.  SFUK : first of all tell
us how you and Ian hooked up?  Stuart Wheatman : I was pretty
sure I'd heard of him before because he was always in the Sunday
Sun (local paper). It was just after Ian won the Travis fight
when I read the next article about him and it will always stick
in my mind: "I may be just some guy from Dipton but I've just
beaten one of the hardest men on the planet" - as soon as I read
that there were fireworks going off in my head! I read on and
Ian said something along the lines of 'I hit him as hard as I
could', and seeing a picture of him I knew that it must have
been like being hit by a truck. I knew I had to get in touch
with him so I contacted the paper and we arranged a meeting.  We
had a few phone conversations before meeting up and it developed
from there. The first time we met was in Sunderland just before
Christmas '99. We got t