FREDDIE ROACH AND THE WILD CARD GYM (PART II)

<!–
google_ad_client = “pub-5161085239586630”;
/* PM/PT 468×15, created 1/28/09 */
google_ad_slot = “3448614590”;
google_ad_width = 468;
google_ad_height = 15;
//–>

<script type=”text/javascript”
src=”http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js”&gt;
By Maloney L. Samaco

Freddie Roach was born on March 5, 1960 in Dedham, Massachusetts and he will be turning 49 next month. There were seven kids in their family and his dad was an ex-pro fighter who wanted his children to become boxers also.

Roach’s first fight was when he was about six years old and he joined his first tournament at the age of eight and won the Junior Olympic 50-pound division. He had 50 amateur fights and lost nine. Roach turned pro in 1978. read more

Filed under: Amir Khan, Ana Julaton, Battle of East and West, Bernard Hopkins, Freddie Roach, Israel Vazquez, James "Lights Out" Toney, Manny "Pacman" Pacquiao, Oscar de la Hoya, Wild Card Gym

FREDDIE ROACH AND THE WILD CARD GYM

<!–
google_ad_client = “pub-5161085239586630”;
/* PM/PT 468×15, created 1/28/09 */
google_ad_slot = “3448614590”;
google_ad_width = 468;
google_ad_height = 15;
//–>

<script type=”text/javascript”
src=”http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js”&gt;
By Maloney L. Samaco

The term “wild card” in American slang refers to something unpredictable. The name perfectly fits the Wild Card Gym, in Hollywood, the ideal place to train Manny Pacquiao and other prominent fighters. The Gym makes Pacquiao “unpredictable” which converted him into an incredible fighting machine and the world’s number one boxer pound-for-pound.

Wild Card Gym is located at the corner of Santa Monica Boulevard and Vine Street, in the heart of Hollywood, California. It is a small, simple, four-wall structure. The walls are posted with boxing pictures, fight posters, photos of famous boxers. The most famous poster in the middle of the gym is a black-and-white picture of a young Muhammad Ali.

Aside from Pacquiao, other prominent boxers who trained and honed up their boxing skills at the Wild Card Gym are James “Lights Out” Toney, Bernard “The Executioner” Hopkins, Peter Manfredo Jr., Kahren Harutyunyan, Juan “Hispanic Causing Panic” Lazcano, Ana Julaton, Kingsley Ikeke, Rey “Boom-Boom” Bautista, Bobby “The Sniper” Pacquiao, Diosdado “Prince” Gabi, Z “The Dream” Gorres, Gerry Peñalosa, Dimitri “The Baby” Kirilov, O’Neil Bell, Craig McEwan, and Amir Khan. read more

Filed under: Amir Khan, Ana Julaton, Craig McEwan, Dimitri "The Baby" Kirilov, Freddie Roach, Gerry Peñalosa, James "Lights Out" Toney, Manny "Pacman" Pacquiao, Wild Card Gym, Z "The Dream" Gorres