“If you wish to say my identify helped him get this chance on Friday, then that’s honest,” he stated in a video interview alongside along with his son final week after Giovanni’s final prefight exercise on the Raul Marquez Boxing Health Health club in Humble, Texas, exterior Houston.
Then once more, Giovanni Marquez, 21, has been producing boxing buzz for a while. On the Nationwide Golden Gloves championships final yr in Tulsa, Okla., he won the 152-pound title and was voted the excellent boxer of the event. His novice document was a gaudy 75-12.
“Gio has been coping with the notion that his success is the results of his dad’s identify his entire life,” stated Raul Marquez, 50. “However he by no means complains. He places his head down and works, and the outcomes communicate for themselves. My identify didn’t assist him dominate the amateurs.”
Giovanni Marquez added that he didn’t really feel a lot stress because of bearing the household identify.
“I simply place confidence in God,” he stated. “Work arduous. Keep targeted.”
The youthful Marquez’s opponent, Nelson Morales, had his personal compelling story. He was born within the Dominican Republic, grew up in Newark, lives in Scranton, Pa., and is a part-time police officer who trains whenever he can. Morales, 30, entered the bout with a 2-0 skilled document, he stated in an interview on Tuesday, simply as he had completed getting a haircut.
“I’m simply making an attempt to look good on TV,” he stated. “I’ve acquired to promote myself.”
With a spouse and two youngsters, and a 3rd youngster on the best way, Morales stated he relished the prospect to combat the son of a world champion.
