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Age started boxing: 11. My weight was 156lbs [11st 2lbs] and I tried to lose weight with boxing. My [older] brothers were already boxing and I tried to do the same. I started at Gymnasio Bairoa in Caguas. I lost weight but started to feel something for boxing. In the beginning it was just for fun. But then I started to feel a love for boxing.
Inspiration: My family, but I compete in the sport for me.
Favourite all-time fighter: Wilfredo Gomez.
Best fight seen: Gomez-Carlos Zarate.
Pre-fight meal: Pasta.
What do you do to relax: See some movies, TV shows, spend time at home with my wife and three kids.
Pre-fight superstition: None.
What kind of training do you do between fights (if any): Run a little bit. And try to play something with my kids.
Typical breakfast: Sometimes oatmeal, sometimes eggs.
Toughest part of being a boxer: I enjoy every part.
Favourite music: I like everything.
Last book read: One from Paulo Coelho, the Brazilian author. I can’t remember the title.
Favourite film: Men of Honor.
What car do you drive: I have a Mercedes [black].
Where do you train: Gymnasio Bairoa, Caguas, Puerto Rico.
Training routine: Warming up, do some things in the gym. Jump rope. Sparring if I have to spar. Those things.
Toughest man faced: Ricardo Torres. I didn’t expect it to be so tough. And to go back and forth like it did. I’m glad people saw that I can take a punch and fight back. All the time I was thinking I had to win, no matter what. I didn’t care how I won – I had to win. This was the first time I’ve been knocked down. We lived all the things a boxer can live. Now I’ve been through all that a great fighter must go through – all the adversity inside the ring. And I still won.
What supplements do you take: Vitamins, proteins, some Creatine.
If you weren’t a boxer what would you be: I don’t know. I never think about other things.
Last place you went on holiday: Two weeks after my last fight (v Oktay Urkal) in Puerto Rico.
Favourite football team: It’s River Plate in Argentina.
Best boxer in sport today: Me.
ENJOY!
Some may be a little old, but still good reads.
Inspiration: My family, but I compete in the sport for me.
Favourite all-time fighter: Wilfredo Gomez.
Best fight seen: Gomez-Carlos Zarate.
Pre-fight meal: Pasta.
What do you do to relax: See some movies, TV shows, spend time at home with my wife and three kids.
Pre-fight superstition: None.
What kind of training do you do between fights (if any): Run a little bit. And try to play something with my kids.
Typical breakfast: Sometimes oatmeal, sometimes eggs.
Toughest part of being a boxer: I enjoy every part.
Favourite music: I like everything.
Last book read: One from Paulo Coelho, the Brazilian author. I can’t remember the title.
Favourite film: Men of Honor.
What car do you drive: I have a Mercedes [black].
Where do you train: Gymnasio Bairoa, Caguas, Puerto Rico.
Training routine: Warming up, do some things in the gym. Jump rope. Sparring if I have to spar. Those things.
Toughest man faced: Ricardo Torres. I didn’t expect it to be so tough. And to go back and forth like it did. I’m glad people saw that I can take a punch and fight back. All the time I was thinking I had to win, no matter what. I didn’t care how I won – I had to win. This was the first time I’ve been knocked down. We lived all the things a boxer can live. Now I’ve been through all that a great fighter must go through – all the adversity inside the ring. And I still won.
What supplements do you take: Vitamins, proteins, some Creatine.
If you weren’t a boxer what would you be: I don’t know. I never think about other things.
Last place you went on holiday: Two weeks after my last fight (v Oktay Urkal) in Puerto Rico.
Favourite football team: It’s River Plate in Argentina.
Best boxer in sport today: Me.
ENJOY!
Some may be a little old, but still good reads.
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