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Las Cruces boxer Austin Trout has filed a lawsuit against his former promoter, claiming Greg Cohen’s interference in the negotiating process ruined his chances to fight on last Saturday’s Floyd Mayweather Jr.—Saul “Canelo” Alvarez undercard in Las Vegas, Nev.

Trout’s trainer, Las Cruces’ Louie Burke, on Tuesday confirmed a story detailing the lawsuit that appeared Monday in the Southeast Texas Record, a Beaumont, Texas, legal journal.

The lawsuit was filed in Galveston (Texas) County District Court. Bob Spagnola, Trout’s manager, lives in Galveston.

Burke told the Journal on Tuesday that the former WBA junior lightweight champion’s career appears to be on hold until the dispute with Cohen can be resolved.

“Al Haymon (Trout’s adviser) didn’t want to go forward with anything with this litigation going on,” Burke said.

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In the lawsuit, Trout says his contract with Cohen expired earlier this year. Cohen evidently does not agree.

Cohen, according to the lawsuit, approached Showtime – the premium cable network that had rights to the Mayweather-Alvarez pay-per-view telecast – and “threatened to take legal action unless Showtime negotiated with Trout through (him).

“As a result of Cohen’s actions, Showtime’s negotiations with Trout ended,” the lawsuit continues.

In the lawsuit, Trout says Cohen “is destroying all future opportunities, costing Trout potentially millions of dollars.”

Trout is seeking a restraining order, according to the Southeast Texas Record story.

Trout (26-1, 14 knockouts) has not fought since April 20, when he lost his WBA 154-pound title to Alvarez by unanimous decision.

BREAKTHROUGH: Promoters love Albuquerque boxer Hector Muñoz. He’s a pressure fighter whose presence in the ring almost guarantees an entertaining fight. He’s durable and stays in shape.

Best of all, he’s rarely a threat to beat the guy the promoter is promoting. That’s why Muñoz (22-11-1, 14 KOs) had lost 10 of his previous 13 fights entering his Sept. 11 middleweight bout against Hector Camacho Jr. in Parker, Ariz. That’s why he was a prohibitive underdog against Camacho, (57-5-1, 31 KOs), the son of the late Puerto Rican boxing legend.

But Camacho, despite his glossy record, was at least a couple of rungs below the kind of opposition Muñoz had routinely faced as an “opponent” – fighters with a combined record of 175-7 entering their bouts with the Albuquerquean. On top of that, Camacho came in overweight and, apparently, not in the best of shape.

Muñoz, dominating the later rounds, pounded out a victory by unanimous, 10-round decision.

“I won this for the 505,” Muñoz posted on Facebook.

Muñoz also is in high demand as a sparring partner. After working with Danny “Swift” Garcia in preparation for Garcia’s victory over Lucas Mathysse on the Mayweather-Alvarez undercard, Muñoz is headed to Denver to help WBO junior welterweight champion Mike Alvarado prepare for his Oct. 19 title defense against Russia’s Ruslan Provodnikov.

MMA: Moriarty’s Tim Means (19-5-1) made his Legacy Fighting Championship debut a smashing one last weekend, stopping Pete Spratt (25-23) in the first round of an LFC welterweight (170-pound) main event in San Antonio, Texas.

Means, who trains in Albuquerque at FIT-NHB, dropped Spratt with an elbow behind the ear and finished him with strikes on the ground.

… Albuquerque’s Holly Holm (4-0, all four victories via punches or kicks) is scheduled to return to the cage Oct. 11 on an LFC card in Dallas.

Holm’s scheduled opponent is Erica Paes (2-2) of Brazil. Paes’ calling card is her May 2005 victory by submission (knee bar) over fellow Brazilian Cristiane Justino (12-1), better known as Cristiane “Cyborg” Santos, and for her first-round demolition of Gina Carano in 2009.