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Just seventeen

WHO’D be a teenager? Attempting to figure out your place in the chaotic and confusing world of adulthood has never been easy. It’s no wonder so many of us veer off down the wrong path, lost in a search for identity and meaning.

How then does a 17-year-old enter into prize fighting with such an air of certitude, brimming with the wisdom of an old-timer, and with a blueprint for his career already mapped out?

“I believe in myself a lot,” declared Puerto Rico’s teenage sensation, Xander Zayas.

“I’m not trying to be arrogant, I

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