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By Keith Idec - NEW YORK — Ethnic pride aside, the loudest applause during the annual pre-Puerto Rican Day Parade boxing card tonight at Madison Square Garden probably should be reserved for a white guy from Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
Unlike the bravest boxers we metaphorically immortalize for waging the most brutal battles in the ring, Steven Badgley has literally been through a war. Twice. The 30-year-old Badgley, a chief warrant officer for the U.S. Army, has served two tours in Iraq over the past seven years.
He is scheduled to be deployed again in October for a third tour in the Middle East, but before he begins pre-deployment training this summer he’ll make his pro debut tonight against Angel Gonzalez (0-2), of Yonkers, N.Y. Their four-round light heavyweight fight is part of a six-bout card that’ll pit Puerto Rico’s Ivan Calderon (33-0-1, 6 KOs) against Mexico’s Jesus Iribe (17-6-4, 10 KOs) in the 12-round main event for Calderon’s WBO light flyweight title (10 p.m. EDT; FOX Sports En Espanol). [Click Here To Read More]
Unlike the bravest boxers we metaphorically immortalize for waging the most brutal battles in the ring, Steven Badgley has literally been through a war. Twice. The 30-year-old Badgley, a chief warrant officer for the U.S. Army, has served two tours in Iraq over the past seven years.
He is scheduled to be deployed again in October for a third tour in the Middle East, but before he begins pre-deployment training this summer he’ll make his pro debut tonight against Angel Gonzalez (0-2), of Yonkers, N.Y. Their four-round light heavyweight fight is part of a six-bout card that’ll pit Puerto Rico’s Ivan Calderon (33-0-1, 6 KOs) against Mexico’s Jesus Iribe (17-6-4, 10 KOs) in the 12-round main event for Calderon’s WBO light flyweight title (10 p.m. EDT; FOX Sports En Espanol). [Click Here To Read More]
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