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Featherweight boxer Orlando Cruz stretches before working out at Top Rank Gym in Las Vegas Monday, Oct. 7, 2013. Cruz is boxing's first openly gay fighter and is going for a world
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Featherweight boxers Orlando Cruz (L) of Puerto Rico and Orlando Salido of Mexico face off during an official weigh-in at the Wynn Las Vegas in Las Vegas, Nevada October 11, 2013. Cruz,
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