Article: Reading Eagle, Pa., Boxing Notes column: Cintron takes tough punch.

Byline: Don Stewart, Reading Eagle, Pa.

Dec. 29--It was a frustrating year for Kermit Cintron. Fittingly, it ended with a little more frustration. The Reading welterweight was in position to fight California's Mark Suarez in an IBF elimination bout that would have led to a mandatory title shot for the winner.

Cintron promoter Bobby Bostick and Suarez promoter Don King were in negotiation for more than a month. Bostick eventually outbid King for the rights to the fight. Bostick wanted to promote the fight March 25. The IBF, one of boxing's three major sanctioning bodies, ruled that the bout must be held by Jan. 7. Conveniently enough, King is ...

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