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Every time I stepped into the ring, somebody wanted to kill me.

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There is only one legend. That's me.

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Getting hit motivates me. It makes me punish the guy more. A fighter takes a punch, hits back with three punches.

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Fame doesn't make me any different. I am the same man now who grew up in the hard streets of Panama. I am just myself. I always will be. Whoever wants to talks to me, talks to me. Whoever loves me, loves me for who I am.

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Some of the old refs have favoritism toward some of the fighters that are currently fighting. There should be a changing of the guard with the refs, the same way there are with fighters.

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Everybody says it: black, white; everybody calls me a legend. Italians, Jews. Everybody.

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Yes, it's true I once knocked out a horse. It was at a fiesta in my mother's home town of Guarare. Someone bet me a bottle of whiskey that I couldn't do it.

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I do not fight for free. But I was born to be a fighter.

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I am not going to become crazy in the ring, because I am already crazy. And I am not going to die in the ring. I am going to die in bed as an old man.

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I'm not God - but I am something similar.

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Biography

Nationality: Panamanian

Type: Athlete

Born: June 16th, 1951

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