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Article: Uneasy truce between Rivera and King.(SPORTS)
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- Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
- Article date:
- May 6, 2007
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Byline: Bud Barth
COLUMN: BOXING NOTES
Maybe it's time for Jose Antonio Rivera and Don King's people to go to neutral corners and take a standing 8-count.
Some nasty verbal punches have flown recently between Worcester's three-time world champion and boxing's most powerful promotional outfit, with Paxton promoter Jimbo Isperduli caught somewhere in the middle.
It boils down to this: Rivera wants to fight again, and soon, and his pleas to Don King Productions to arrange a fight went unanswered. When Isperduli asked DKP to allow Rivera to fight on his June 29 Worcester show and got verbal approval but couldn't get a written OK, he - ...