 Their association ended during preparations for that 1998 Wilfredo Vazquez-Naseem Hamed confrontation in England.King had wanted Vazquez to fight a rematch with the WBA mandatory challenger, Antonio Cermeno, whom King promoted, and who had beaten Vazquez in 1995 to win the WBA Junior Featherweight world title from him.Zabala logically went for the more lucrative and higher-profile bout.