May 4-9 National Golden Gloves, Salt Lake City, Utah June (date
to be determined) USA Boxing Senior Nationals, Denver CO
May 9 (Saturday) Sante Fe Boxing Show, Sante Fe Texas
May 16 (Saturday)
Fort Bend Boxing Show, Rosenberg
June 8-13
USA Boxing Combined Senior Junior
Olympic National Championships, Denver CO
July 23-25
National Junior Golden Gloves, Mesquite, NV
Future Legends
The phrase
"Future Legends"
might appear at first to be so much hype until you consider the
history of the Houston amateur boxing scene, and the legends
already produced thus far. Few of us old enough to have seen it
will forget George Foreman's waving of an American flag after
winning the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City. Since then
Houston-area gyms have continued to produce some of the world's
finest fighters: "Termite" Watkins, Raul Marquez,
Reggie Johnson, and Eric Griffin all fought in the Houston
Golden Gloves. Active Houston-area pros who came up through the
local amateur system include former N.A.B.F. Cruiserweight Champion Felix Cora, Jr.,
former W.B.A. Lightweight Champion Juan Diaz
and former W.B.C. Continental Americas Featherweight Champ Rocky Juarez. There are currently at
least 700 amateur boxers registered in Houston and the surrounding area,
training in 50 boxing clubs. On any given day you can walk into
one of these gyms and see greatness in development. On this page
we chronicle the hard work and the achievement of those
young men and women who strive to fulfill their destinies, and
give you a glimpse at the making of
Future Legends!!
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2009 USA Boxing Texas
Championships!!!
More than 50 fighters
from five regions around the state converged on Houston from
April 24-26 of 2009 for the USA Boxing Texas Championships.
Winners advance to the national tournament for a chance to
make the U.S. Olympic Team!!!
Robert Sherman, 178 lbs., Gulf Assn., Galena
Park Boxing Academy, Pasadena
Anthony Mack, 201 lbs., Southwestern Assn.,
201 Boxing Club, Dallas
Eric Reza, 201+ lbs., Border Assn., San Juan
Boxing Club, El Paso
Texas World Class Boxing Gym!!!
Pasadena, Texas!!!
The World Class Boxing Gym is
managed by the Galena Park Boxing Academy
Established 1967
The Galena Park Boxing
Academy has a tradition of excellence
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2007 Southeast Texas
Golden Gloves Champion Jazmin Perez, age 16, 98 lbs.
Philosophy--"Boxing is the
art of hitting an opponent from the furthest distance away,
exposing the least amount of your body while getting in position
to punch with maximum leverage and not getting hit. "
2007 Southeast Texas Golden
Gloves Champion Thomas Le, age 13, 101 lbs.
2007 Southeast Texas Golden Gloves Champion
Tabor Wright, age 13, 93 lbs.
New crops of fighters keep
coming into the gym
Amateur Eric Manriquez, left,
spars with Orlando Gomez
One of Kenny's pro fighters Jesus
(Ernie) "El Martillo" Gonzales
(17-1, 11 KO's)
Future Champion Roy Ortega,
age 7
Boxers warm up
before working out
Kenny Weldon teaches boxing
fundamentals
Weldon, third from left, during
the 1968 Golden Gloves
Weldon's
primary boxing influence, Lightweight Benny Leonard of New York
(169-11-4, 68 KO's) (Circa 1915)
