La Colonia Youth Boxing Club

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]

Gym

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]

Notable fighters

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 García 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]

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