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Long Island's Hieron keeps his IFL title

IFL welterweight champion Jay Hieron took the center of the ring against Mark Miller Friday night at the Izod Center in East Rutherford, N.J. In front of thousands of fans and at least 50 friends and family, the Long Island native and Freeport product was a long way away from when his life was at a dangerous crossroads.

Hieron once spent a month and a half in jail for selling drugs. The 31-year-old...

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