Editing Fernando Vargas (section)

===Comeback trail===
Despite these problems, Fernando remained an accessible and popular celebrity, known for signing many [[autographs]]. After his knockout win over [[Fitz Vanderpool]] on July 26, 2003, he stood in a corner and yelled "I love you guys!" to his fans. Vargas continued his comeback, on December 12, with a seventh-round knockout of Tony Marshall that was shown live nationwide from [[Tucson, Arizona|Tucson]], on [[TeleFutura]]. During that fight, Vargas injured a [[Intervertebral disc|disc]] in his back, and his doctor recommended surgery, but Vargas chose to rehabilitate his back himself without having the procedure. This caused him to spend almost two years in inactivity, but, on March 26, 2005, he returned to boxing with a ten-round unanimous decision win over [[Ray Joval]] in [[Corpus Christi, Texas]].

On August 20, 2005, he returned to the boxing ring to fight fellow former world light middleweight champion [[Javier Castillejo]] of Spain. Vargas dropped Castillejo in the third round, but he apparently broke his right hand and went on to win by a ten-round unanimous decision.