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National Golden Gloves Elite, Open Champions Crowned
By BRIAN ACKLEY
Senior Editor
Photo: Blanca Gutierrez
July 13, 2014
     
   
   


 

(JULY 13)  FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla. – With her neon green boxing shoes, it's hard to miss Danyelle Wolf in the ring.

Otherwise, it might be hard to find USA Boxing's No. 1 ranked Welterweight. That's because the San Diego native, literally, trains in a garage there.

Wherever she does her work, it's paying off, most recently Saturday night in Ft. Lauderdale with a 2014 National Golden Gloves 152-pound championship.

Wolf scored a unanimous decision over No. 3 ranked Fallon Farrar to cap a night of 11 championship bouts. The lithe six-footer has been boxing going on six years now, and was one of the athletes recently featured in ESPN Magazine's Body Issue.

“Just staying busy, with multiple punch combinations” she said when asked about the key to her win. “I wanted to work my jab and stay on the outside.”

Following are the rest of the results from Saturdays 2014 National Women's Golden Gloves championships:

106 Elite Open – Alexandra Love, a 2014 USA Boxing national championship, now has a national Golden Gloves title to add to her resume.

Love was her ringmanship and skills to score a unanimous decision over Jennifer Amato of New Hampshire. She has been boxing for five years and is part of the U.S. Army World Class Athlete program at Fort Carson in Colorado.

“I just wanted to be myself, and use my experience,” she said. Love, ranked as USA Boxing's No. 2 light flyweight, scored a knockdown in the final round.

Amato repeatedly pressed the issue, trying to get inside on Love, something she had to adjust to quickly.

“It throws you off, you don't really train for that kind of style, you train more technical,” she added. “so it's a little harder to fight, and she had a big heart. I had to keep moving.”

112 Elite Open – Times are changing for Marlen Esparza, and it shows.

The bronze medal winner at the 2012 London Olympics, Esparza, who trains at the Olympic boxing gym in Colorado Springs, has changed her style a bit since amateur boxing scoring has changed as well.

She landed several big blows, and scored a standing eight count against the game Lambert, ranked No. 5 by USA Boxing in the flyweight division, in the second round.

“I changed my fighting style with the system,” she noted. “Before when it was just points, I didn't hit hard at all. But since they changed it to the 10-9, I throw the same punches, but I toned down my balancing and added that energy to my punching.”

Lambert's stick-and-move style was not enough to slow Esparaza down.

“She'll throw when you're in her pocket so I just made sure I found my distance before I moved in,” the veteran of 13 years in the ring said. “So if I would ever just leap in, she would exchange with me.”

119 Elite Open – It was the best of the best at 119, and No. 1 ranked Christina Cruz scored a unanimous decision over the nation's No. 2 ranked fighter, Amanda Pavone.

Cruz also is at the Olympic boxing training center in Colorado Spring, and hails from New York City.

She is a nine-year veteran of the ring.

The two have boxed before, so Cruz said she had a game plan going in, which included her height and reach advantage.

“She has become my rival, so I kind of knew what I was going against,” Cruz said. “I thought she would be a little more aggressive, she usually is, but my game plan worked out fine, to box her and keep her at bay.”

She is looking forward to the world championships late this fall in South Korea, and is hoping to move down to 112 for a chance at the 2016 Olympics in Brazil.

125 Elite Open – Rianna Rios still has some work ahead of her as the No. 4 ranked USA Boxing featherweight, but a national Golden Gloves title should be a good stepping stone.

She scored a unanimous decision over the No. 8 ranked Ashleigh Moore of Virginia. Rios, like Love, is part of the U.S. Army World Class Athlete program at Fort Carson in Colorado, and has been boxing for about nine years. She is a native of Alice, Texas.

“I just boxed a little, let her through her right hand, and step to the side and countering,” she said. She scored a standing eight count against Moore in the second round. “I love to counter punch, and tonight I was able to do that. I didn't really have a strategy because I didn't know her, but after the first round, everything just kind of fell into place.”

132 Elite Open – The rankings might indicate it was an upset, but Los Angeles' Mikaela Mayer, ranked as USA Boxing's No. 3 lightweight, outslugged No. 2 ranked Melissa Parker to earn a split decision win in the fight of the night.

Mayer, who has been boxing for seven years and currently represents the U.S. Olympic Education Center at Northern Michigan University, had an especially impressive fourth round when she repeatedly scored with her punches, even though Parker appeared to land more heavy blows, just not enough of them.

“She's a southpaw, and really aggressive, so I knew I needed to throw in combinations, and I think I executed that the best in the last two rounds, just the straight right and coming back with the hook” she said. “With a southpaw, you can't back up, so you tuck your chin and meet her (punches).”

141 Elite Open – Even Meghan Karcher was surprised.

The Tavares, Florida, fighter who's been boxing for five years, scored a third round stoppage of Ohio's Alycia Baumgardner, to win her Golden Gloves national championship belt.

“My first TKO, I'm excited” she beamed, after scoring four standing eight-counts, which means an automatic stoppage of the fight. She boxes out of the Unique Boxing and Fitness in Tavares.

“She was a tough girl, but our goal for this whole tournament has been pressure, pressure,” Karcher said. “The left hook and a right, that's our two punches.”

141 Senior Open – Monayah Patterson will return home a champion to a gym quite used to them, the Kronk Gym in Detroit.

Patterson, who has been boxing for eight years and is aiming for a spot of the USA Boxing 2016 Olympic team, scored a unanimous decision over Meri Stewart of Minnesota in the finals.

“My corner was telling me to stay on my toes and work the jab, and go to the body” Patterson said. “My strategy was work hard because I was not going to lose.”

119 Senior Open – Shannon Renteria hopes one day to have an Olympic medal hanging from her neck, but for now, she is happy to settle for a gold from the 2014 finals.

Renteria, who has been boxing for about three years, too a split decision over Samantha Salazar of of Texas. She boxes out of the Madison Boxing Gym in Phoenix, Ariz.

“Definitely setting everything up off the jab,” she said about the key to getting the close win. She did some good body work, especially late, which might have paid off. “Most definitely. Kill the body and the head falls off,” she added.

112 Senior Open – Jacquelyn Cuddeback credited a conversation with a fellow female fighter the night before her championship bout. Of course, it wasn't just any boxer, it was a chat with Lucia Rijker, who was in town as part of the inaugural class of fighters inducted into the International Women's Boxing Hall of Fame.

Cuddeback rode Rijker's advice to a unanimous decision over Katie Durgin of Massachusetts. She fights out of the Cedar Rapids Boxing Club in Iowa, and has been serious about boxing for only about two years now, while also practicing mixed martial arts.

“I wanted to get an idea of where I wanted my head to be, and she told me it's all about being positive, that if you get in there and what you're doing isn't working, rather than focusing on it, accept it, and figure out a way to work with it,” she said.

112 Senior Novice – Letrial Soloman has only been boxing for about seven months, but she already has a national title, defeating Felicia O'Brien of Massachusetts by a close split decision.

Soloman fights out of ATT Legacy/World Class Boxing in Port St. Luice Florida.

“The key to the win was to just keep my jab out there and say on her, keep the pressure on her,” Soloman said. She hopes to turn pro once she finished her amateur days.

 
     
     
   
 
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