(L) - Pryce Taylor ndi chiyembekezo chokulirapo(chithunzi mwachilolezo cha Sullivan Management)
NEW YORK MZINDA (March 19, 2024) - Brooklyn heavyweight Pryce Taylor (3-0, 2 Ko) wasintha bwino kuchoka ku basketball kupita ku nkhonya ndipo lero chiyembekezo chazaka 27 chikukwera ngati womenya mphotho yemwe sanagonjetsedwe..
Taylor adati adabweretsa miyendo yake kuchokera ku makhothi kulowa mu mphete. Anadumpha mpira koyamba ali sitandade 8, mainchesi anayi amfupi kuposa 6’ 4” Taylor ali lero. Pryce akuvomereza kuti mpira wa basketball wasowa koma mwamsanga ananena kuti akhoza kusewerabe, osati pa timu, chifukwa sali mu mawonekedwe a basketball panonso. “Ndili mu nkhonya,” anatero monyadira.
Wokongoletsedwa wa U.S. ankachita masewera womenya nkhonya, adawonetsedwa ndi maudindo ake awiri a New York Golden Gloves Championship, Taylor adakhalanso wopambana nthawi zinayi mu USA National Championship, kuphatikiza imodzi kwa Joshua Edwards, yemwe ali woyenerera kuyimilira ngati wolemera kwambiri ku Team USA mu 2024 Masewera a Olimpiki ku Paris.
Chaka chatha, Taylor adapambana zisanu ndi ziwiri akumenyera New York mu Team Combat League (Mtengo wa TCL), umene uli wozungulira umodzi, mpikisano wamtundu wa timu. Zolankhula mwaukadaulo, zopambana sizili mbali ya mbiri yake ya nkhonya. Taylor wapindula ndi zomwe adakumana nazo ndipo apikisana nawonso nyengo ino.
Taylor adasewera basketball kwa nyengo imodzi ku Corning Community College kumpoto kwa New York. “Ndinasiya kusewera basketball zaka zisanu ndi chimodzi zapitazo,” adatero Taylor. “Ndinatero 60 ndewu (osachita masewera, zabwino ndi TCL) ndipo khulupirirani osewera nkhonya abwino kwambiri amafika kumeneko ndi chidziwitso chambiri. Choncho, Ndakhala ndikupeza zambiri. Ndili ndi luso lokonzekera bwino ndipo ndikudziwa zomwe ndiyenera kuchita mu mphete.
“Maganizo anga ndikuchita zomwe osewera ena samachita. Osewera nkhonya onse amaphunzira zoyambira, koma zonse zomwe akufuna kuponya, Ndadziponya kale, ndipo ndikudziwa kutsutsa komwe kulipo. Chilichonse chomwe amaponya ndimatha kuchiteteza. ”
Taylor adayikidwa panjira yofulumira ndi manejala wake, Loya waku New York City Keith Sullivan, yemwe wapeza kuti sikophweka kupeza otsutsa oyenera Taylor, amene chifukwa cha kukula kwake, amateur pedigree komanso kutenga nawo gawo mu TCL, ndi wapamwamba kwambiri kuposa momwe ma pro ake atatu angasonyezere.
Gawo lina lofunika kwambiri pakukula kwa Taylor ndikuchepetsa olemera okhazikika monga Jarrell "Big Baby" Miller., Otto Wallin, Vladyslav Sirenko, ndi Brandon Glanton kutchula ochepa odziwika kwambiri.
Taylor adapanga kuwonekera kwake koyamba mu Disembala watha, kuyimitsa Mike Diorio poyambira, anatsatira January 27 ndi zotsatira zomwezo motsutsana ndi Gabriel Aguilar Costa. M'machitidwe ake aposachedwa kwambiri mu Marichi, Taylor adapita mtunda kwa nthawi yoyamba ngati pro, Kutsekera kozungulira zinayi kuti apange chisankho chimodzi motsutsana ndi Antonio Torres (4-1), 40-36 katatu.
(L-R) - Wophunzitsa wamkulu Benny Roman, Pryce Taylor & mtsogoleri Keith Sullivan (chithunzi mwachilolezo cha Sullivan Management)
Komaliza nkhondo, ku Sony Hall, Taylor adatuluka mu mphete ndikuzungulira mphete pambuyo pake ndi mbendera yaku Ireland atazunguliridwa pamapewa ake akulu. (onani chithunzi pamwambapa).
"Keith (Sullivan) ankadziwa kuti padzakhala mafani ambiri aku Ireland kumeneko kuti awonere msilikali wa ku Ireland (Emmet Brennan) kumenyana pambuyo panga,” Taylor adafotokoza. "Anawona kuti inali njira yabwino yolumikizirana ndi gulu lalikulu la anthu aku Ireland, motero adandikokera mbendera yamitundu itatu yaku Ireland. Iye anali wolondola, anthu aku Ireland omwe analipo adakonda kwambiri, ndipo ndapanga mafani enanso. "
Kutayika kwa basketball ndikopindula kwa nkhonya; Pryce Taylor ndi chiyembekezo chovomerezeka chokhala ndi zabwino kwambiri.
Kuphatikiza pakuwongolera Pryce Taylor, Keith Sullivan, yemwe anali Wachiwiri kwa Commissioner ndi New York State Athletic Commission, komanso loya wakale wa nkhonya, komanso amawongolera IBF Bantamweight World Champion Miyo Yoshida (17-4, 0 Ko) ndi Bronx middleweight chiyembekezo Nisa Rodriguez (1-0), kuphatikiza pakuwongolera limodzi ndi World Boxing Association (WBA) Osa. 12-adavotera mpikisano wa welterweight Paddy "The Real Deal" Donovan (13-0, 10 Ko), wolamulira wa WBA Continental Champion kuchokera ku Limerick, Ireland. Sullivan amawongolera Donovan ndi katswiri wakale wapadziko lonse wapakati pa Andy Lee.