Boxing is one of those sports that always produces stories like no other.
The boxers are an inspirational bunch.
The Olympics at the moment littered with these chronicles — as present day illustration.
Isn’t it funny.
Boxing, like life, always produces moments of magic, once in a while.
When you’re younger, you think you are on your own sometimes and in total control, but the older get, the more you realize you are never, and are not in control at all. The world situation the last couple of years teaching that lesson to us all.
Alas, God goes before you everywhere you go. Jesus Christ is always enough, always was, not anything within the world.
In that vein, this story right here showing the resolve of the human spirit in the form of a boxer:
This young Man @JesusAraujo97_ came to my Gym 2 Years ago as an Asylum Seeker from Venezuela to make a Better Life for his Family 🙏🏼 He has an opportunity to make his Debut in Sept ! However if anybody interested in Sponsorship to Make this Happen would be Amazing 👍☘ DM pic.twitter.com/aPGUmbDWhK
Best of luck to him ahead of the prospective debut.
Packie Collins above is the head trainer at renowned Irish Boxing gym Celtic Warriors, trainer also to big hitting Irish fighter Gary ‘Spike’ O’Sullivan.
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