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By Thomas Gerbasi - When it comes to practically anything in life, if you do something long enough, it will start to become routine. This is especially true in boxing, where the top-level fighters lace up the gloves when they’re barely into grade school, and soon 10 amateur fights become 50, 50 becomes 100, and in the case of the Dominican Republic’s Argenis Mendez, 100 becomes 250.
Mendez reportedly won 238 of those 250 bouts, eventually making it to the 2004 Olympics, and what had been a part of his life since the age of 12 was just going to continue. Now, a check came along with each fight and each victory, and through his first 12 pro fights, everything kept going as smoothly as they always did.
Then came the night of October 3, 2008, and all of a sudden things weren’t routine anymore. Well, let me clarify that – for the first round against 14-3 Jaime Sandoval, it was business as usual for Mendez, who dropped and almost finished Sandoval before the bell intervened. [Click Here To Read More]
Mendez reportedly won 238 of those 250 bouts, eventually making it to the 2004 Olympics, and what had been a part of his life since the age of 12 was just going to continue. Now, a check came along with each fight and each victory, and through his first 12 pro fights, everything kept going as smoothly as they always did.
Then came the night of October 3, 2008, and all of a sudden things weren’t routine anymore. Well, let me clarify that – for the first round against 14-3 Jaime Sandoval, it was business as usual for Mendez, who dropped and almost finished Sandoval before the bell intervened. [Click Here To Read More]