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It has been a long winding road for twenty-six year old Christopher Martin (25-2-3, 8KOs). From first lacing up the gloves as a fourteen year old kid and now a professional for a little over six years, the correctional officer by the day and married father of two has known success but just recently also [...]
In boxing, the story is as old as the day is long. Young boy picked on my school mates and father walks him over to the local boxing gym to be educated in the art of the sweet science. For Tijuana super bantamweight Alejandro “Alex” Lopez (24-2, 7KOs) the visit turned into a lifelong passion [...]
For undefeated super flyweight southpaw Ivan “Niño Maravilla” Morales (19-0, 12KOs) the future can’t come soon enough. Like for any twenty-one year old, anything is better than right now and it is no different for the younger brother of former champions Erik and Diego Morales who wants his time under the limelight and this is [...]
We’ve heard it many times before. Boxing is not a game. Hands, gauze, tape, leather, foam or at times horse hair are the only weapons needed but unfortunately they can cause enough damage to take a fighter’s life. That almost took place a crisp dark Los Angeles night nearly six years ago when former light [...]
On Saturday, Dec. 8, at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, 25-year-old contender Mercito “No Mercy” Gesta (26-1-1, 14 KOs) came up short in his first world title bid, losing a lopsided unanimous decision to Mexico’s 25-year-old IBF lightweight titlist Miguel “Titere” Vazquez (33-3, 13KOs), in a 12 round lightweight championship bout [...]
Marvin Quintero likes to keep his promises. Shortly after joining the CREA gym in the heart of Tijuana he made a promise to trainer Romulo Quirarte, better known as the chief second for WBC lightweight champion Antonio DeMarco, in bringing him two life achievements. The first was a college diploma that he received a year [...]
After a little more than a year after signing with Top Rank, undefeated lightweight Mercito “No Mercy” Gesta (25-0-1, 13KOs) is finally getting his turn under the lime light when this Friday night from the Texas Station Casino in Las Vegas, NV, he takes on the brash Ty Barnett (20-2-1, 13KOs) of Washington, D.C., in [...]
After a dominating performance over veteran Ricardo “Pelon” Dominguez last November, Filipino lightweight sensation Mercito “No Mercy “Gesta (24-0-1, 12KOs) took a well deserve rest and traveled back to him birth city of Cebu, Philippines from his stateside headquarters of San Diego, CA. When he came back two and a half months later, the twenty-four [...]
After finally being able to call himself a champion on the night of October 15th, 2011, current WBC lightweight champion Antonio DeMarco (26-2-1) could have never dreamt that his nearly life long dream would have come true the way it did. Behind on all the cards, DeMarco of Tijuana, Mexico, by of Los Mochis, Sinaloa, [...]
For any boxer, professional or amateur, the act of sparring is one of the most intricate but equally important facets of their training. By it, a fighter can work on various techniques as well as acclimate themselves to a specific style or stance. Often, a fighter faces a former sparring partner when it counts the [...]
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