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- 1 2 "A Ring of Dreams Goes Home to the Old Neighborhood : Community: La Colonia Boxing Club returns to the site where some members' ambitions first took root," Los Angeles Times , August 3, 1995.
- ↑ "Oxnard Expected to Rebuild Old Boxing Club in La Colonia," Los Angeles Times , June 21, 1994.
- ↑ "READY TO RUMBLE : La Colonia Holding a Full House," Los Angeles Times , July 3, 1996.
- ↑ "Rising boxing star Victor Ortiz started at bottom," USA Today , June 22, 2009.
- ↑ "A Friend in Need," Los Angeles Times , January 18, 2001.