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According to Dan Rafael of espn.com, former Lightweight champion Javier Jauregui passed away from complications from a stroke. He was 40 years old.
“He was a great champion, and I remember him as a nice and polite young man outside the ring,” Golden Boy chief executive Richard Schaefer said.
“He was one of our first world champions,” Schaefer said of Jauregui. “Very sad. We will do a 10-count [in his honor] on Saturday.”
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