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I know that a lot of you guys don't follow the light-flyweights, but one of the hardest-hitting mini-flies of all time, Brian "The Hawaiian Punch" Viloria, took to the ring in Las Vegas to defend his WBC title against the deservedly unheralded Mexican fighter Omar Nino Romero. By the end of the night, however, Romero had earned the respect of Brian Viloria and everyone watching the fight.The guys at OLN, or at least the fight's promoters, did a fine job of reading the Filipino/Mexican rivalry. If you put a half-decent fighter from either country in the ring against a fighter from the other, you will sell a lot of tickets (Viloria is an American-born son of Filipino immigrants, but he is fully embraced by the Filipino public). The rivalry has long been there, though it has been honed to a razor-sharp edge with Manny Pacquiao's battles with several great Mexican fighters, most notably Antonio Barrera, Juan Manuel Marquez, and Erik Morales (who Manny will be f...
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