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Out Boxer Orlando Cruz to Fight for Lightweight Title

Openly gay boxer Orlando Cruz will fight Terry Flanagan for the Briton's lightweight title on Nov. 26.
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Orlando Cruz fights during a boxing match on July 15, 2016 in Kissimmee, Florida.Alex Menendez / Getty Images
/ Source: The Associated Press

Puerto Rican boxer Orlando Cruz will fight Terry Flanagan for the Briton's World Boxing Organization's (WBO) lightweight title on Nov. 26.

In 2012, Cruz became the first professional boxer to come out as openly gay while actively competing.

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In his first and only world title fight, Cruz was stopped in the seventh round by Orlando Solido for the vacant WBO featherweight belt in 2013

The 35-year-old Cruz will fight Flanagan in Cardiff, Wales, on the undercard of Billy Joe Saunders' WBO middleweight defense against Artur Akavov.

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