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Fernando Vargas

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Fernando Javier Vargas (born December 7, 1977) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1997 to 2007. [1]

84 relations: AAU Junior Olympic Games, Allstate Arena, Alpha Dog, Amateur boxing, American Bank Center, Americas, Atlantic City, New Jersey, Austin Convention Center, Austin, Texas, Autograph, Bally's Atlantic City, Boardwalk Hall, Chinook Winds Casino, Corpus Christi, Texas, Don Haskins Center, El Paso, Texas, Etess Arena, Evander Holyfield vs. Lennox Lewis, Félix Trinidad, Fitz Vanderpool, Foxwoods Resort Casino, Grand Olympic Auditorium, Howard Clarke, Ike Quartey, International Boxing Association (professional), International Boxing Federation, Intervertebral disc, Javier Castillejo, Joe Cortez, Judith Grace González, Ledyard, Connecticut, Lennox Lewis vs. Andrew Golota, Light middleweight, Light welterweight, Lincoln City, Oregon, List of doping cases in sport, Los Angeles, Madison Square Garden, Mandalay Bay, Mandalay Bay Events Center, Marian Simion, Maripily Rivera, MGM Grand Garden Arena, Miami, Miccosukee Resort & Gaming, MontBleu, Nevada Athletic Commission, New York City, Orthodox stance, Oscar De La Hoya, ..., Oscar De La Hoya vs. Fernando Vargas, Oxnard, California, Pan American Games, Paradise, Nevada, Pay-per-view, Philadelphia, Police procedural, Professional boxing, Raúl Márquez, Raymond Joval, Reality television, Ricardo Mayorga, Rosemont, Illinois, Ross Thompson, Sacramento, California, Shane Mosley, Sleep Train Arena, Stanozolol, Staples Center, Stateline, Nevada, Super middleweight, Telemundo, The Blue Horizon, Tucson, Arizona, U.S. Olympic Festival, Universo (TV network), Welterweight, Wilfredo Rivera, Winky Wright, World Boxing Association, World Boxing Council, Yori Boy Campas, 1995 Pan American Games, 1996 Summer Olympics. Expand index (34 more) »

AAU Junior Olympic Games

The AAU Junior Olympic Games are the pinnacle competitiheld annually by the US Amateur Athletic Union.

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Allstate Arena

Allstate Arena is a multi-purpose arena in Rosemont, Illinois, United States.

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Alpha Dog

Alpha Dog is a 2006 American crime drama film written and directed by Nick Cassavetes, first screened at the Sundance Film Festival on January 27, 2006, with a wide release the following year on January 12, 2007.

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Amateur boxing

Amateur boxing (also called Olympic Boxing) is a variant of boxing practised at the collegiate level, at the Olympic Games, Pan American Games and Commonwealth Games, as well as many associations.

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American Bank Center

The American Bank Center is an entertainment complex located in Corpus Christi, Texas.

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Americas

The Americas (also collectively called America)"America." The Oxford Companion to the English Language.

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Atlantic City, New Jersey

Atlantic City is a resort city in Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States, known for its casinos, boardwalk, and beaches.

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Austin Convention Center

The Neal Kocurek Memorial Austin Convention Center is a multi-purpose convention center located in Austin, Texas.

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Austin, Texas

Austin is the capital of the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Travis County, with portions extending into Hays and Williamson counties.

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Autograph

Autograph is a famous person's artistic signature.

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Bally's Atlantic City

Bally's Atlantic City is a hotel and casino on the Boardwalk in Atlantic City, New Jersey that opened in 1979.

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Boardwalk Hall

Boardwalk Hall, formerly known as the Historic Atlantic City Convention Hall, is an arena in Atlantic City, Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States.

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Chinook Winds Casino

Chinook Winds Casino and convention center is a Native American casino located in Lincoln City, Oregon.

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Corpus Christi, Texas

Corpus Christi, colloquially Corpus (Latin: Body of Christ), is a coastal city in the South Texas region of the U.S. state of Texas.

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Don Haskins Center

The Don Haskins Center, formerly known as the Special Events Center, is the home of UTEP Miners men's and women's basketball.

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El Paso, Texas

El Paso (from Spanish, "the pass") is a city in and the seat of El Paso County, Texas, United States.

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Etess Arena

The Etess Arena at Hard Rock Live (formerly known as The Arena at Trump Taj Mahal and Mark G. Etess Arena) is a multi-purpose arena in Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States.

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Evander Holyfield vs. Lennox Lewis

Evander Holyfield vs.

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Félix Trinidad

Félix Juan Trinidad García (born January 10, 1973), also known as "Tito" Trinidad, is a Puerto Rican former professional boxer who competed from 1990 to 2008.

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Fitz Vanderpool

Fitzroy "Fitz The Whip" Vanderpool (born November 3, 1967 in Trinidad and Tobago) is a Canadian professional boxer who currently holds the Canada Boxing Authority (NBA) Middleweight title.

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Foxwoods Resort Casino

Foxwoods Resort Casino is a hotel and casino complex owned and operated by the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation on their reservation located in Ledyard, Connecticut.

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Grand Olympic Auditorium

The Grand Olympic Auditorium is the name of a former sports venue in southern Downtown Los Angeles, California.

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Howard Clarke

Howard W. Clarke (born June 12, 1929) is Professor Emeritus of Classics and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara (1969–present).

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Ike Quartey

Isufu "Ike" Quartey (born 27 November 1969) is a Ghanaian former professional boxer who competed from 1988 to 2006.

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International Boxing Association (professional)

The International Boxing Association (IBA) is an organization that sanctions professional boxing matches and awards world and inter-continental championships.

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International Boxing Federation

The International Boxing Federation (IBF) is one of four major organizations recognized by the International Boxing Hall of Fame (IBHOF) which sanction world championship boxing bouts, alongside the World Boxing Association (WBA), World Boxing Council (WBC) and World Boxing Organization (WBO).

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Intervertebral disc

An intervertebral disc (or intervertebral fibrocartilage) lies between adjacent vertebrae in the vertebral column.

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Javier Castillejo

Francisco Javier Castillejo Rodríguez (born 22 March 1968), commonly known as Javier Castillejo, is a Spanish former professional boxer who competed from 1988 to 2009.

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Joe Cortez

Joe Cortez (born October 13, 1943) is an American boxing referee who has officiated in many important world title bouts.

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Judith Grace González

Judith Grace González Hincks (born September 7, 1962, in Monterrey Nuevo León, México) is a Mexican television personality and former Señorita México.

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Ledyard, Connecticut

Ledyard is a town in New London County, Connecticut, United States, located along the Thames River.

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Lennox Lewis vs. Andrew Golota

Lennox Lewis vs.

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Light middleweight

Light middleweight, also known as junior middleweight or super welterweight, is a weight class in combat sports.

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Light welterweight

Light welterweight, also known as junior welterweight or super lightweight, is a weight class in combat sports.

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Lincoln City, Oregon

Lincoln City is a city in Lincoln County on the Oregon Coast between Tillamook and Newport.

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List of doping cases in sport

The following is an incomplete list of sportspeople who have been involved in doping offences.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.

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Madison Square Garden

Madison Square Garden, often called "MSG" or simply "The Garden", is a multi-purpose indoor arena in the New York City borough of Manhattan.

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Mandalay Bay

Mandalay Bay is a 43-story luxury resort and casino on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada.

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Mandalay Bay Events Center

Mandalay Bay Events Center is a 12,000-seat indoor arena at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, on the Las Vegas Strip, in Paradise, Nevada.

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Marian Simion

Marian Simion (born September 14, 1975 in Bucureşti) is a Romanian boxer, who competed in the Light Middleweight (71 kg) at the 2000 Summer Olympics and won the silver medal.

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Maripily Rivera

María del Pilar ("Maripily") Rivera Borrero (born 15 June 1977) is a Puerto Rican actress, model, Primera Hora.

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MGM Grand Garden Arena

The MGM Grand Garden Arena (originally known as the MGM Grand Garden Special Events Center) is a multi-purpose arena located within the MGM Grand Las Vegas on the Las Vegas Strip.

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Miami

Miami is a major port city on the Atlantic coast of south Florida in the southeastern United States.

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Miccosukee Resort & Gaming

Miccosukee Resort & Gaming is a resort and casino on the western outskirts of Miami, Florida, off 500 Southwest 177th Avenue on the edge of the Everglades.

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MontBleu

MontBleu (formerly Park Tahoe and Caesars Tahoe) is a hotel and casino located in Stateline, Nevada.

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Nevada Athletic Commission

The Nevada Athletic Commission (popularly known as the Nevada State Athletic Commission or NSAC) regulates all contests and exhibitions of unarmed combat within the state of Nevada, including licensure and supervision of promoters, boxers, kickboxers, mixed martial arts fighters, seconds, ring officials, managers, and matchmakers.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Orthodox stance

In combat sports such as boxing, an orthodox stance is one in which the boxer places his left foot farther in front of the right foot, thus having his weaker side closer to the opponent.

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Oscar De La Hoya

Oscar De La Hoya (born February 4, 1973) is an American boxing promoter and former professional boxer who competed from 1992 to 2008.

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Oscar De La Hoya vs. Fernando Vargas

Oscar De La Hoya vs.

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Oxnard, California

Oxnard is a city in Ventura County, California, United States.

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Pan American Games

The Pan American Games (also known colloquially as the Pan Am Games) is a major sporting event in the Americas featuring summer sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions.

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Paradise, Nevada

Paradise is an unincorporated town and census-designated place (CDP) in Clark County, Nevada, United States, adjacent to the city of Las Vegas.

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Pay-per-view

Pay-per-view (PPV) is a type of pay television service by which a subscriber of a television service provider can purchase events to view via private telecast.

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia is the largest city in the U.S. state and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the sixth-most populous U.S. city, with a 2017 census-estimated population of 1,580,863.

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Police procedural

The police procedural, or police crime drama, is a subgenre of detective fiction that depicts investigations into several unrelated crimes in a single story or episode.

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Professional boxing

Professional boxing, or prizefighting, is a regulated, sanctioned boxing.

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Raúl Márquez

Raúl Márquez (born August 28, 1971) is a Mexican-American former boxer, and the former IBF champion at light middleweight.

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Raymond Joval

Raymond "Hallelujah" Joval (born 15 September 1968 in Amsterdam) is a professional boxer from the Netherlands and a former International Boxing Organization World Champion in the Middleweight class.

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Reality television

Reality television is a genre of television programming that documents supposedly unscripted real-life situations, and often features an otherwise unknown cast of individuals who are typically not professional actors, although in some shows celebrities may participate.

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Ricardo Mayorga

Ricardo Antonio Mayorga Perez (born October 3, 1973) is a Nicaraguan professional boxer and former mixed martial artist.

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Rosemont, Illinois

Rosemont is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States.

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Ross Thompson

Ross Thompson is a retired professional boxer.

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Sacramento, California

Sacramento is the capital city of the U.S. state of California and the seat of Sacramento County.

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Shane Mosley

Shane Andre Mosley (born September 7, 1971), often known by his nickname "Sugar" Shane Mosley, is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1993 to 2016.

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Sleep Train Arena

Sleep Train Arena, originally ARCO Arena and later Power Balance Pavilion, is a defunct indoor arena located in Sacramento, California, United States.

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Stanozolol

Stanozolol, sold under many brand names, is an androgen and anabolic steroid (AAS) medication which was derived from dihydrotestosterone (DHT).

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Staples Center

Staples Center, officially stylized as STAPLES Center, is a multi-purpose arena in Downtown Los Angeles.

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Stateline, Nevada

Stateline is a census-designated place (CDP) on the east shore of Lake Tahoe in Douglas County, Nevada, United States.

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Super middleweight

Super middleweight, or light cruiserweight, is a weight class in combat sports.

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Telemundo

Telemundo is an American Spanish-language terrestrial television network owned by Comcast through the NBCUniversal division NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises.

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The Blue Horizon

The Blue Horizon is a historic 1,346-seat former boxing venue in Philadelphia.

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Tucson, Arizona

Tucson is a city and the county seat of Pima County, Arizona, United States, and home to the University of Arizona.

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U.S. Olympic Festival

The U.S. Olympic Festival was an amateur multi-sport event held in the United States by the United States Olympic Committee in the years between Olympic Games.

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Universo (TV network)

Universo is an American digital cable and satellite television network that is owned by the NBCUniversal Hispanic Enterprises Group and Content subsidiary of NBCUniversal.

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Welterweight

Welterweight is a weight class in combat sports.

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Wilfredo Rivera

Wilfredo Rivera (born May 4, 1969) is a Puerto Rican former professional boxer who fought three times for world titles, losing to Pernell Whitaker twice and to Oscar De La Hoya.

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Winky Wright

Ronald Lamont "Winky" Wright (born November 26, 1971) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1990 to 2012.

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World Boxing Association

The World Boxing Association (WBA) is the oldest and one of four major organizations which sanction world championship boxing bouts, alongside the IBF, WBC, and WBO.

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World Boxing Council

The World Boxing Council (WBC) is one of four major organizations which sanction world championship boxing bouts, alongside the International Boxing Federation (IBF), World Boxing Association (WBA) and World Boxing Organization (WBO) and one of the two original sanctioning bodies (along with the WBA).

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Yori Boy Campas

Luis Ramón "Yori Boy" Campas Medina (born August 6, 1971) is a Mexican professional boxer who held the IBF junior middleweight title from 1997 to 1998.

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1995 Pan American Games

The 12th Pan American Games were held in Mar del Plata, Argentina, from March 12 to March 26, 1995.

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1996 Summer Olympics

The 1996 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXVI Olympiad and unofficially referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games, was an international multi-sport event that was celebrated from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernando_Vargas

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