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THE WILD CARD

JAIME MUNGUIA isn’t accustomed to losing. In fact, through 42 professional boxing matches, he’s yet to experience the bitter taste of defeat. That’s not easy at this level of the game, and it may be a testament as much to the Tijuana native’s mental strength as well as the physical.

Don’t think so? I ask him for the last time he lost at anything. He pauses. Then pauses some more.

“The last time I lost was playing video games,” he told Boxing News through a translator. “It’s one of my pastimes or hobbies, but obviously no one likes to lose. Everyone wants to win.”

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