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This year’s edition, which is returning to West Virginia for a fourth time, marks the fourth year the Prep National Championships have been a part of the Junior Olympics.

I returned my attention to the other boxers in the gym and moved them along to the next drill. I spent a few minutes with them and then decided to address the situation with the new little boy. He was beating a heavy bag with as much anger as I have ever seen in a person. I watched for a bit, and then approached...

by MISSY FITZWATER   My first fight would seem a disaster.  I wasn’t prepared for what was about to hit me…literally.  It would not last an entire round.  I stood as the ref raised her hand, I smiled and congratulated her, and I then stepped out of the ring.  For a split second, I thought that it would be the last time I exited...

Image: AIBA, Rio 2016 Olympics by Missy Fitzwater   They say that “you can never go home.” Nico Hernandez knows that this is not true.  He has found his way back home on numerous occasions. He has boxed in competitions across the nation, collecting an impressive array of hardware, including:  a National Golden Gloves championship ring, eight Ringside World Championship belts, two Jr. Olympic...

IMAGE - AIBA, RIO 2016 OLYMPICS by Missy Fitzwater It is not a secret that boxing is a powerful sport.  But, where does all of that power come from.  Is it in the jab, or the technique?  Is it in the hours of training?  Or does it lie somewhere within the athlete themselves?  Cristina Gonzalez of the She Fights Foundation believes the latter to...

By Missy Fitzwater “I personally plan on being able to use my brain in the future...Why on earth would anyone choose to voluntarily get hit in the head and face?....You’re a sweet girl from the country, why do you want to hang out with thugs and gang members who have nothing better to do with their lives than get into fights?.....Anyone who would get...

USA BOXING NEWS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATE: June 28, 2016 U.S. Olympians Errol Spence and Shakur Stevenson to Surprise Irving PAL Boxers at Gym Makeover Reveal (DALLAS, TEXAS) – The young athletes at the Irving PAL Boxing Gym will enjoy more than just one surprise when they walk in to their gym on Wednesday. The boxers will be greeted with not only a gym full...

(Cam Awesome - USA Boxer and Rio Athlete)   By Missy Fitzwater There are certain events in everyone’s lifetime that always elicit a visceral response. One of these, for me, has always been the Olympics. As a little girl, I remember the excitement and anticipation I felt in an Olympic year; from the journey of the torch travelling great distances to reach its final destination in the...