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Javier Molina is accustomed to using his hands for hitting his opponents inside the ring. But since winning the U.S. Olympic Trials and earning a spot on the 2008 Olympic team in the light welterweight division (141 pounds), the tools of his trade have been used more and more for accommodating autograph requests.
“My hands get a little tired," admitted the young man from Commerce, California, who downed Danny Garcia of Philadelphia 26-12 in Houston, Texas, to earn a trip to China.
It's the realization of a dream he had when he first started his amateur career.
"I think I was about 10 at the first national tournament, I think I went to Kansas City," he recalled. Molina, who works out of the Bristow Park City of Commerce Boxing Club, isn't the first Olympian to come out of this gym. "I started watching 'Panchito' Bojado go to the Olympics, he was training for it." Bojado in 2000, would represent Mexico in Sydney, Australia. "So I started thinking about it. Ever since then I wanted to go to the 2008 Olympics."
“My hands get a little tired," admitted the young man from Commerce, California, who downed Danny Garcia of Philadelphia 26-12 in Houston, Texas, to earn a trip to China.
It's the realization of a dream he had when he first started his amateur career.
"I think I was about 10 at the first national tournament, I think I went to Kansas City," he recalled. Molina, who works out of the Bristow Park City of Commerce Boxing Club, isn't the first Olympian to come out of this gym. "I started watching 'Panchito' Bojado go to the Olympics, he was training for it." Bojado in 2000, would represent Mexico in Sydney, Australia. "So I started thinking about it. Ever since then I wanted to go to the 2008 Olympics."
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