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Orlando Cruz will fight Orlando Salido in Las Vegas (Getty Images)
LAS VEGAS -- Featherweight contender Orlando
Cruz will fight for a world title for the first time on Saturday when he meets
tough Orlando Salido at the Thomas & Mack Center on the undercard of the
Timothy Bradley-Juan Manuel Marquez pay-per-view.
Featherweight Orlando Cruz will wear
this outfit to the ring on Saturday (Courtesy of Everlast)
It is, by far, the biggest stage that Cruz has
had for one of his bouts. To take advantage of the exposure, Cruz plans to wear
pink boxing gloves and a pink-trimmed ring jacket to help show support for
Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
But
Cruz, boxing's first openly gay fighter,
will also wear rainbow-colored trunks, to support the LGBT movement. The
rainbow flag is a symbol of the movement and was created in 1978 in San
Francisco to urge inclusiveness for all.
The boxing gloves Orlando Cruz will use
Saturday (Everlast)
Everlast made the trunks and the gloves in collaboration with Cruz.
Cruz, who is scheduled to marry boyfriend Jose
Manuel in New York on Nov. 16, is 20-2-1 with 10 knockouts. Salido is 39-12-2
with 27 KOs.
They will meet for the vacant WBO
featherweight championship.
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