Former contender Escalante stages quiet return

Posted on 30 November 2011   Story

Story and photos by Chris Cozzone

“When you’re at the top, everyone’s with you,” the words pop out of former No. 1 Contender Antonio Escalante like jabs on a double-end bag.

“But when you’re down, they’re gone.”

Losing the excess baggage – hangers-on – might not be a bad thing for the border battler who came so close to a title shot, so close to being the first world champion El Paso has ever had, that he could taste it . . . Click here for more

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