Article: Rivera's hat in promotion ring.(SPORTS)

Byline: Bud Barth

WORCESTER - His relationship with promoter Don King, and his very boxing career, on thin ice at age 34, three-time world champion Jose Antonio Rivera is forming his own promotional company - not to further his own ambitions, but the careers of local fighters in this fertile boxing mecca.

Rivera, who now lives in Auburn, is teaming up with boxing official/referee John Zablocki of Dudley, former middleweight contender Sean Fitzgerald of Worcester, and businessman Raul Crockett of Worcester to form Rivera Promotions.

"What we have in mind is to build these kids up and get them ready for bigger and better things," said Rivera, ...

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