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"How Curtis Cokes Became The Greatest Boxer in the Dallas' History"

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Curtis Cokes.

World Featherweight Championship MIKEY GARCIA vs. JUAN MANUEL LOPEZ

This Saturday! June 15, Live on HBO? American Airlines Center? in Dallas

DALLAS (June 9, 2013) -- World championship boxing returns to Dallas this week!

To get you in the mood, here's a terrific story written by Barry Horn, which ran in today's Dallas Morning News, on Dallas' greatest world champion, Curtis Cokes.

ENJOY!

"Dallas' Forgotten Champion: How Curtis Cokes Became The Greatest Boxer in the City's History"

http://dallasne.ws/19bwBZI


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Undefeated World Boxing Organization (WBO) featherweight champion MIKEY GARCIA (31-0, 26 KOs), of Oxnard, Calif., and former WBO junior featherweight and WBO featherweight champion JUAN MANUEL LOPEZ (33-2, 30 KOs), of Caguas, Puerto Rico, will rumble for Garcia's title This Saturday! June 15.

Promoted by Top Rank?, in association with PR Best Boxing, Foreman Boys Promotions and Tecate, remaining tickets to Garcia vs. Lopez, priced at $200, $100, $60, $40 and $25, plus additional service fees, can be purchased at the American Airlines Center box office (Monday - Saturday, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. CT), online at Ticketmaster.com, by calling Ticketmaster at 800-745-3000, or by visiting any Ticketmaster outlet (Fiesta Foods, Macy's Wal-Mart and The Shops at Willowbend.)

The Garcia - Lopez world featherweight championship event will be televised live from the American Airlines Center in Dallas, TX, on HBO Boxing After Dark, beginning at 10:45 p.m. ET/PT. The HBO telecast will open with Top-10 contenders TERENCE CRAWFORD and ALEJANDRO SANABRIA, JR. battling for the vacant NABO lightweight title. This will be the first time HBO has televised a boxing event from the American Airlines Center.

For fight updates go to www.toprank.com or www.hbo.com/boxing, on Facebook at facebook.com/trboxing, facebook.com/trboxeo or facebook.com/hboboxing and on Twitter at twitter.com/trboxing, twitter.com/trboxeo or twitter.com/hboboxing.




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