La Colonia Youth Boxing Club is a boxing gym located on 1st street in La Colonia neighborhood in Oxnard, California. Notable Mexican American boxers train at the gym and future boxers are also brought up there.[1][2]
The gym is a place where members of the community can train and box. It is complete with punching bags, workout machines, lockers, bathrooms, weight sets, speed bags, and a ring. The owners and trainers of the gym take young boxers to amateur fights throughout Southern California to compete against similar gyms.[3]
It has produced such notable Mexican American Fighters Like Fernando Vargas, Roberto Garcia, Miguel Angel Garcia, Victor Ortíz, and Brandon Rios. Roberto Garcia a former IBF World Champion is the head trainer, His father Eduardo Garcia was an amateur boxer and is also a Trainer.
Fernando Vargas a former resident of La Colonia is still a regular fixture at the gym. Victor Ortíz, one of boxing's most talented young prospects, currently trains at the gym after moving to Oxnard from Garden City.[4] Daniel Cervantes, another up-and -coming fighter, trains there. Also, junior flyweight champion Brian Viloria and Mia St. John.[5]