Laredo’s Emilo Garcia Scores Impressive Victory in Shreveport
Laredo is known as the Gateway City and is best known for being home to the legendary Canizalez brothers. Orlando and Gabriel both captured world Titles in the '80s and '90s. The city is having a reboot of amazing young boxing talent. Jorge Castaneda, Josh Juarez, each scored major wins on massive cards and upstarts like Jaime Jasso and Nick Molina are emerging world-level talents in their own right. The talent in the gateway city continues to shine as Emilio Garcia, perhaps the favorite to win the USA Boxing National Championships in the 139-pound Elite division scored a sensational 4-1 decision victory over David Villalobos of San Joaquin County, California. Controlling the fight with his jab and not letting his elusive and quick-footed opponent out of his sight, Garcia set up perfect power shots that rocked his opponent and body shots the slowed him down. Garcia, perhaps the favorite to win Nationals advances on to the round of 8 and will face the winner between Jacob Nuevas of Nevada and Joseph Audby of California. Garcia has an outstanding amateur career that includes a win over Austin, native, and current NABF Junior Super Featherweight Titleholder Floyd Schofield of Austin, Texas, who sports a perfect record of 8-0 (6).
In the Youth division 15-year old Rio Grande Valley native Ranulfo Bocanegra put on a show to lead the Texas Youth movements in the USA Boxing National Championships. Bocanegrawho sports over 100 amateur fights beat fellow Texan Jeremiah Martinez of Houston on points in a 112-pound bout. Bocanegra, of Donna, Texas moves on to the next round of the prelims and will fight tomorrow. The star amateur does not plan on turning pro in the near future and says he wants to stay in the amateur ranks and compete for a spot on the US Olympic team in the 2024 Paris Games. *Emilio Garcia W Davis Vilalobos
In other Texas news #1 ranked 112-pound youth fighter Diego Barron of Mesquite, Texas, survived a bit of a scare from a very game and tricky Armando Juarez of San Antonio in an All-Texas showdown after a very competitive opening three minutes that the judges favored the Alamo City native 4-1, Barron righted the ship and dominated the final two rounds to earn the decision victory and move to the next round. Barron will fight on Thursday in the Quarter Finals.
Several other Texans were victories on the day as well! see the list below:
Anthony Galvin Houston W Michael O'conner
Domani McMillian Forney w Maz Manriquez
Angel Vargas Garland, W Izaac Rivera
Sevein Portillo Amarillo W Roland I vizcarra
Javier Guerro Dallas, W Aidan Flat
Jaime Borja Ceder Creek W Da'Juan Hayes
Jaderick Perez Wichita Falls W Aydin Aydin Nagtalon
Gerardo Favila Welaco wLeonardo Blancas
Antonio Rico Austin W Qawi McFadden
Jose Artigo Houston W Andruw Rodriguez
Guillermo Trujillo Mesquite W Damon Romero Houston
Kayson Jones Grand Prairie W Tyson McGriff Duncanville Texas
Giancarlo Rodriguez Carrizo Springs W Kevin Aceves Garland, Texas
Yandel Pena Houston w Armado Cruz Houston Texas
Tristan Saenz San Juan w Ivan Sanchez Edinburg Texas
steven Grady Katy W Christian Paez San Antonio, Texas
Angel Mata Austin, W John Goodnight
Diego Barron Mesquite W Armando Juarez San Antonio
Ranulfo Bocanegra Donna W Jeremiah Martinez Houston,
Emilio Garcia Laredo, W David Villalobos
Kevin Ayala San Antonio W Anthony Vickers
Narcizo Cerrato Houston W Esteban Orosco Midland
Jarvin Jones Needville, W Kenton Walker
Dylan Ponce Houston W Alexander De Alba
Joshua Edwards Houston W Joe Rinaldi
Henry Richard Conroe w Emiliano Ortiz Uvdale