Tweet
By Keith Idec - PASSAIC, N.J. — Glen Tapia will be a changed man when returns today to the Passaic PAL, where he began boxing as a precocious 8-year-old in the late 1990s.
He’ll still be the same humble, hard-working fighter he was when he left for the Philippines last month. Life, however, has changed for this 20-year-old prospect from a rough urban community of nearly 70,000 in northern New Jersey.
Tapia impressed promoter Bob Arum so much during sparring sessions with Manny Pacquiao last week that Arum already has reached out to Pat Lynch, Tapia’s co-manager, about signing the undefeated junior middleweight prospect to a co-promotional pact with Pound-For-Pound Promotions, the Union City, N.J.-based company founded by Lynch’s brother, John.
Each of Tapia’s seven professional fights have been part of Top Rank undercards, but Pat Lynch hopes official support from one of the two most powerful promotional companies in boxing will help Tapia progress into becoming a prospect and later a contender with whom executives at HBO and/or Showtime will want to work.
“This whole experience has really has been great for Glen,” Pat Lynch said. “It couldn’t have worked out better, to be quite honest.”
Freddie Roach, Pacquiao’s renowned trainer, was so thankful for the work Tapia provided Pacquiao in Baguio City he convinced Tapia to stay an additional day this week to spar one last time against Pacquiao. Tapia flew home from Manila on Friday because Tapia (7-0, 5 KOs) is scheduled to face San Antonio’s Quinton Whitaker (7-7, 5 KOs) in a non-televised, six-round fight Oct. 30 at Bally’s Events Center in Atlantic City.
That’s where Tapia thrashed Tyrone Miles (1-3), of Camden, N.J., in one minute Feb. 27. The 2006 Junior Olympic national champion has won three fights since then, two by technical knockout, and he has plenty of incentive stop Whitaker. [Click Here To Read More]
He’ll still be the same humble, hard-working fighter he was when he left for the Philippines last month. Life, however, has changed for this 20-year-old prospect from a rough urban community of nearly 70,000 in northern New Jersey.
Tapia impressed promoter Bob Arum so much during sparring sessions with Manny Pacquiao last week that Arum already has reached out to Pat Lynch, Tapia’s co-manager, about signing the undefeated junior middleweight prospect to a co-promotional pact with Pound-For-Pound Promotions, the Union City, N.J.-based company founded by Lynch’s brother, John.
Each of Tapia’s seven professional fights have been part of Top Rank undercards, but Pat Lynch hopes official support from one of the two most powerful promotional companies in boxing will help Tapia progress into becoming a prospect and later a contender with whom executives at HBO and/or Showtime will want to work.
“This whole experience has really has been great for Glen,” Pat Lynch said. “It couldn’t have worked out better, to be quite honest.”
Freddie Roach, Pacquiao’s renowned trainer, was so thankful for the work Tapia provided Pacquiao in Baguio City he convinced Tapia to stay an additional day this week to spar one last time against Pacquiao. Tapia flew home from Manila on Friday because Tapia (7-0, 5 KOs) is scheduled to face San Antonio’s Quinton Whitaker (7-7, 5 KOs) in a non-televised, six-round fight Oct. 30 at Bally’s Events Center in Atlantic City.
That’s where Tapia thrashed Tyrone Miles (1-3), of Camden, N.J., in one minute Feb. 27. The 2006 Junior Olympic national champion has won three fights since then, two by technical knockout, and he has plenty of incentive stop Whitaker. [Click Here To Read More]
Comment