April 18 (Saturday)
Cardio Boxing show
Montgomery County Fairgrounds
9333 Airport Road, FM 1484, Conroe, Texas
Contact: James Reyna 281-367-0090
Weigh-ins: 11AM-1 PM, Show time: 2 PM
April 24, 25, 26
Texas Senior USA Championships
Host Gulf LBC
Denver Harbor Multi-Service Center
6402 Market Street, Houston, TX 77020
May 4-9 National Golden Gloves, Salt Lake City, Utah June (date
to be determined) USA Boxing Senior Nationals, Denver CO
May 1-3
Texas (Region 8) Junior Olympic tournament
Host: South Texas LBC
May 2 (Saturday)
Cinco de Mayo show, Lufkin
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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Road To London 2012!!
Dozens of athletes
from southeast Texas competed from April 3rd through 5th in
the Junior/Senior
Olympic tournament at
the Eastside Boxing Club in Houston!!
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Martinez/Peogreis--(Peogreis
in blue headgear)--Martinez goes down in the 1st round in
the video above but came back to win the fight in a great
slugfest in the Sr. Open Div. at 141 lbs!
Outstanding Female Boxer!!--Diana Martinez of the
Eastside Boxing Club (left)--
Jr. Olympic 13-14 yrs. old,
119 lbs.,--is
presented the Outstanding Female Boxer award by pro Super
Featherweight Crystal "Choo Choo" Delgado!!--
Roger Ibarra, J.O.
Div., 13-14 yrs. old, 132 lbs.,
Main Boxing Gym
John Leal, J.O.
Div., 15-16 yrs. old, 125 lbs.,
Eastside Boxing Club
Antonio
Capulin, J.O. Div., 15-16 yrs. old, 132 lbs.,
Screaming Eagles Boxing Club
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Mendoza over
Gomez!
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Bryant
Defeats Hill!
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Cochran Over
Manriquez!
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Tournament Director Juan Moya
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)
