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It's déjà vu all over again for Valero

By Kieran Mulvaney
Special to ESPN.com

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Edwin Valero has been here before. Almost. Valero has been training in Southern California for a bout on HBO pay-per-view (Saturday, 9 p.m. ET), his first televised fight on U.S. soil, an introduction to American boxing fans who likely have heard much about the Venezuelan slugger with the 100 percent knockout record but have had little if any opportunity to see him for themselves. It could almost be January 2004. Almost, but not quite. Back then, as now, Valero was something of a cult phenom ...

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