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Manny Pacquiao's success may raise steroid questions

Wallace Matthews

Newsday columnist Wallace Matthews

Matthews writes on professional sports, with a specialty in professional

Manny Pacquiao has come a long way since his first major fight in the United States.

In 2002, as a scrawny 120-pounder, he knocked out Jorge Julio to win the junior featherweight title in Memphis while his family, unable to get seats in the arena - a megafight between Mike Tyson and Lennox Lewis was the main event - was forced to watch the bout on closed-circuit television 50 miles away at...

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