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On the Mark: Valdez Drops WBC Title in Lopsided Bout against Stevenson

By MARK LORENZANA “I want to be one of the greatest Mexican fighters of all time.” This was the confident answer of Óscar Valdez Jr. — a two-time Olympian who represented Mexico in Beijing 2008 and again in London in 2012 — when asked at a pre-fight interview before his scheduled bout against World Boxing Organization (WBO) super featherweight champion

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Covid-19 Epicenter Is Moving South in the Americas

XINHUA The epicenter of the covid-19 pandemic “is moving from Europe toward the Americas,” Cristian Morales Fuhrimann, representative of the Pan-American Health Organization and the World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) in Mexico, warned on Wednesday, April 22. The Americas have had “a bit more time to prepare for what is coming,” Morales Fuhrimann said via videoconference in Mexico City, noting the

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