The inhabitants of Lubbock, Texas has taken a serious uptick the previous few days as greater than 1,100 beginner boxers – plus coaches, mother and father, et al – have come to the Llano Estacado for USA Boxing’s Nationwide Junior Olympics and Summer time Competition.
New Mexico is nicely represented.
In response to the USA Boxing web site, 21 New Mexicans are registered for the competitors, which begins Monday. No match brackets had been obtainable as of this writing.
Two New Mexicans, Ariana Carrasco (Elite Division, 154 kilos) and Joscelyn Olayo-Muñoz (Junior Division, 101 kilos) are the highest seeds of their weight courses.
Each are from Las Cruces, although Carrasco is listed as being from Colorado. She’s a member of the U.S. Military’s boxing workforce, housed at Fort Carson in Colorado Springs.
On Sunday, Olayo-Muñoz, a many-time nationwide champion at age 15, was chosen to recite the Athlete’s Oath previous to the competitors.
Albuquerque’s Yoruba Moreu Jr. is seeded fourth within the Elite 125-pound males’s division.
Albuquerque’s Leroy Clark, a two-time Golden Gloves regional champion, is entered within the males’s Elite 203-pound class.
GG FLASHBACK: The Colorado-New Mexico workforce that competed ultimately month’s Golden Gloves nationals in Chester, Pennsylvania took second place behind Texas within the occasion’s workforce competitors, Albuquerque’s Juan Nunez experiences.
Two New Mexicans, Carrasco (154 kilos) and fellow Las Crucen Samantha Ginithan (139), received particular person titles in Pennsylvania. Albuquerque 147-pounder Ivan Barragan received two bouts en path to the semifinals; Albuquerque’s Marcelino Delgado received his opening bout at 156.
Colorado-New Mexico received the workforce competitors in 2022 when Ginithan received the primary of her two consecutive Golden Gloves titles, turning into the primary New Mexican to take action back-to-back.
The late Johnny Tapia (1983 and ‘85) is the one different New Mexican to have received two Golden Gloves nationwide titles.
LEGACY: Albuquerque flyweight Abraham Perez (7-0, three KOs) is scheduled to face Mexico’s Jesus Angel Perez Diaz (13-3, 10 KOs) in the primary occasion of Legacy Promotions’ July 15 professional boxing card at Expo New Mexico’s Manuel Lujan Constructing.
Perez Diaz replaces fellow Mexican Agustin Perez Balbuena, who encountered visa issues, Legacy’s Aaron Perez – Abraham’s father – mentioned.
The July 15 card additionally marks the return of featherweight Aaron Angel Perez (10-1-1, six KOs), Abraham’s older brother, who has not fought since struggling his first professional loss to San Diego’s Diego Elizondo in October 2021.
Aaron Angel Perez is matched in opposition to Clovis’ Rafael Reyes (20-16, 16 KOs), who misplaced by TKO (retirement, hand harm) to Albuquerque’s Jason Sanchez on Feb. 24 on the Rio Rancho Occasions Heart.
The Legacy card options as nicely the return of Albuquerque welterweight Cristian Cabral (8-2-1, 4 KOs), who has been out of the ring since his June 2018 loss to fellow Albuquerquean Josh Torres.
Cabral is matched in opposition to one other Albuquerque fighter, Daniel Flores Garcia (3-7, two KOs).