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- 1 2 Showtime Championship Boxing tale of the tape prior to the Félix Trinidad fight.
- ↑ "The Lineal Welterweight Champs". Cyber Boxing Zone.
- ↑ "BoxRec: Maurice Blocker vs. Terry Norris". BoxRec . Retrieved October 7, 2020.
