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Oscar Collazo aims to show the world he is the face of Puerto Rican boxing

WBO strawweight titleholder Oscar Collazo is preparing for one of the biggest unification bouts in recent strawweight history as he faces WBA titleholder Thammanoon Niyomtrong, better known as ...
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Oscar Collazo gets nod from Nonito Donaire as boxing’s next big thing

Oscar Collazo has in short order built a lofty reputation as perhaps the mightiest of mites in boxing, a diminutive destroyer of worlds and the tiny torchbearer of the sport’s most overlooked weight ...
Sports Illustrated

Collazo Defeats Niyomtrong To Win The Title Of Unified Champion

On the undercard of Saturday night's bout between Chris Billam-Smith and Gilberto Ramirez, Oscar Collazo stunned everyone by defeating Thammanoon Niyomtrong to become the WBO and WBA unified minimum ...
Sports Illustrated

World Champion Boxer Oscar Collazo Takes The Stage At Bad Bunny Concert

World champion Oscar Collazo is the latest figure from the world of Puerto Rican pugilism to link up with rapper Bad Bunny. Unified mini-flyweight champion Oscar Collazo showed up at Bad Bunny's ...
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Oscar Collazo: This Is My Chance To Let Boxing World Know Who I Am - A Future World Champ

This was a fight week that Oscar Collazo has looked forward to ever since he first learned how to box. It’s a perfect storm of events for the 25-year-old Boricua, who—in just his fifth pro ...
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Luis Collazo Retires From Boxing After Knockout Loss To Angel Ruiz

Former world champion Luis Collazo (39-9, 20 KOs) retired after losing to Angel Ruiz (18-2-1, 13 KOs) in the main event in a ten-round junior middleweight bout on Wednesday, April 19 at the ProBox ...
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Oscar Collazo and Melvin Jerusalem set for rematch on March 14

The best two strawweights in the world are set to run it back. BoxingScene has confirmed that Oscar Collazo and Melvin Jerusalem are on course to meet again on March 14 at a Southern California ...
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Oscar Collazo Makes History, Breaks Barriers In Victory Over Jerusalem

Oscar Collazo’s boxing origin story isn’t necessarily one of outright salvation the way it is for so many other fighters, but the sweet science offered a place for him to explore his athletic ambition ...
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Malignaggi on Khan vs. Collazo, Danny Garcia at 147

Former 140 and 147-pound champion Paulie Malignaggi says Mauricio Herrera did enough last week to pull off an upset twelve round decision win over undefeated WBC/WBA 140-pound champion Danny Garcia.
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Malignaggi: Won't Be Easy, Collazo Will Trouble Thurman

WBA 'regular' welterweight champion Keith "One Time" Thurman (25-0, 21 KOs) is gearing up for a homecoming when he faces former world champion Luis Collazo (36-6, 19 KOs) on Saturday, July 11 in the ...
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Salita Juggles Boxing and Business; Luis Collazo Returns

The surroundings were very familiar to Dmitriy Salita. The 29-year-old welterweight contender from Brooklyn had been in the 20th floor office of the New York State Athletic Commission many times ...