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By Thomas Gerbasi - If you’re lucky, you’ll meet someone like Artemio Reyes Jr. one day.
Even if it’s only for selfish reasons, to give yourself faith once again that qualities such as integrity, work ethic, and loyalty still exist, you’ll walk away with a feeling that your day isn’t as long as you thought it was before, that your work isn’t as hard and that your journey isn’t that arduous.
Most of all though, in a business where you’re supposed to be objective, it’s impossible not to root for the 25-year old welterweight from Colton, California.
That wouldn’t be so difficult in the best of circumstances, as the 14-1 (11 KOs) pro has a crowd-pleasing style, a killer body attack, and next level potential, something made abundantly clear when he handed highly-touted 2008 Olympian Javier Molina his first pro loss on a Showtime-televised ShoBox bout last October.
That was the win that put Reyes’s name on the world map, but there would be no victory tour, no sitting back and basking in the glory of his defining win. No, Reyes got back to work as a manager at El Taquito restaurant in Colton, and back to school as a business major at Cal State University - San Bernardino. [Click Here To Read More]
Even if it’s only for selfish reasons, to give yourself faith once again that qualities such as integrity, work ethic, and loyalty still exist, you’ll walk away with a feeling that your day isn’t as long as you thought it was before, that your work isn’t as hard and that your journey isn’t that arduous.
Most of all though, in a business where you’re supposed to be objective, it’s impossible not to root for the 25-year old welterweight from Colton, California.
That wouldn’t be so difficult in the best of circumstances, as the 14-1 (11 KOs) pro has a crowd-pleasing style, a killer body attack, and next level potential, something made abundantly clear when he handed highly-touted 2008 Olympian Javier Molina his first pro loss on a Showtime-televised ShoBox bout last October.
That was the win that put Reyes’s name on the world map, but there would be no victory tour, no sitting back and basking in the glory of his defining win. No, Reyes got back to work as a manager at El Taquito restaurant in Colton, and back to school as a business major at Cal State University - San Bernardino. [Click Here To Read More]
What a wonderful world this would be.
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