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Article: He's pulling no punches Boxing guru Rivero has champ De La Hoya starting from scratch
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- June 6, 1996
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LAS VEGAS -- He is a Mexican Cus D'Amato, a mystic in a world of
violence.
Jesus Rivero is old and wrinkled, bent by time, his eyes encased
in thick glasses with dark black rims. He is most often seen
silently reading a book. He is nothing like what you would expect to
find inside a boxing gym.
But if Oscar De La Hoya dismantles the legendary Julio Cesar
Chavez tomorrow night behind Caesars Palace, he will owe much of that
victory to a 66-year-old man who has been out of boxing for most of
the past 26 years, years he has spent studying Mexican history and
Greek philosophy and listening to classical music in a small town on
Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula.
It was there that this Old Professor, as ...