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Barrera given OK to continue fighting

Marco Antonio Barrera has been given a clean bill of health following a battery of neurological tests conducted by the Houston Medical Center last Monday, paving the way for the much-awaited ?Clash of the Titans? between the acknowledged featherweight king and reigning IBF junior featherweight champion Manny Pacquiao on Nov. 15 at the Alamadome in San Antonio, Texas.

Dick Cole of the Texas Boxing Commission, which is in fact the Combative Sports division of the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, told Viva Sports in an exclusive overseas telephone interview at 1 a.m. yesterday ?although we have not received an official report as yet, my understanding from a neurologist at the Houston Medical Center is that everything is okay.?

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