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- ↑ Boxer at AllMusic
- ↑ Boxer an Excerpt from Eddie Tuduri's book Sideman 2001
- ↑ "Boxer (2) / Crawler / Moon (28) - Heat On The Streets". Discogs. Retrieved 18 June 2020.
