PACIFICA, CA -  2006 my girls, my friends, teammates who were women were hungry to get in the ring. So, we took Raquel Miller, trained her and brought her to Kings gym in Oakland where there was a matched bout in the 152 lbs. division.

When we got there Martha Salazar and I knew she would fight well and come out on top because man did----she put in the work.

When we got there the other opponent was a surprised to us. She was Martha Salazar's cousin. We shook hands and at that time Eliza Olson another female boxer was in Martha's cousin’s corner.

The vibe was intense. Salazar and I were always loyal and true to our team no matter what. We shook hands and the fight was on. We were all just getting it together as far as coaching, not being in the ring ourselves and there definitely was some animosity between Olson and our team.

Olson doesn’t like to lose and that night they did. One of the best things about that day was, we brought every female fighter we knew to this fight- we took up the whole front row, and we made it clear we were loud and proud and here to stay.

Seasons changed and our circle changed.

We became a family and literally had the best women’s program out there. Let’s talk about some names Mighty Melissa Mc Morrow, Carina Moreno, Martha Salazar, Gina Guidi, Eliza Olson, Jamie Mitchell were a huge value to Beautiful Brawlers program.

Standouts Lupe Gutierrez won the Olympic Trials and later got robbed by USA Boxing by not being selected for the Olympic team.

This was when we really focused in on the AMATEUR PROCESS.
Bay Area boxers Mariana Gonzalez and Alexis Gomez also were participants in the Olympic trials. This was literally the Bay Areas finest with many more including these pros who are currently boxing now professionally Iris Contreras, Sandra Magallon and Tatiana Almaraz who in my opinion would have gone professional much sooner would have been world champions.

The late start into the pros definitely gives them a huge mountain to climb. Competing against a young pack of hungry talented junior and youth boxers who most started boxing at 8 or 9 years old. late to the party pros have a rough road ahead if they want to ever be classified as world championship material. This is just a fact the female boxing landscape has changed and so have the breed of female boxers in the junior and youth levels in the amateurs.

Stay tune for Part 3!  Want to check out Part 1, go here!

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