Marco Verde, a 2024 Olympic silver medalist, announced he will not wait to see the future of Olympic boxing and will instead enter professional boxing, enlisting Eddy Reynoso – the manager and trainer of Saul “Canelo” Alvarez – as his manager.
However, Reynoso will not be training Verde.
At last summer’s Paris Games, Verde, 22, lost in the 71kg gold medal match to Uzbekistan’s Asadkhuja Muydinkhujaev, settling for silver. Before the 2024 Olympics, Verde claimed a gold medal at the Pan-Am Games.
Entering the professional ranks, Verde – from Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico – stood as his country’s most promising Olympic men’s boxer since Oscar Valdez. (Misael Rodriguez earned a bronze in 2016.)
“I am very pleased to share that Eddy Reynoso will be my manager and representative as I begin my journey in professional boxing,” Verde wrote on X, translated from Spanish. “I fully trust his experience and vision. Radames Hernandez is my coach, and I will continue training in Mazatlan. I’ll wait until 2025 to see if Olympic boxing continues.”
Reynoso posted on X (also translated): “It is an honor to have the opportunity to work with a successful and disciplined athlete. In Marco Verde, Mexico has a future world champion.”
Lucas Ketelle is a proud member of the Boxing Writers Association of America and author of “Inside The Ropes of Boxing” (available on Amazon). Contact him on X @LukieBoxing.
