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USA Boxing Alumni Association Profile: 1972 Olympic Bronze Medalist JESSE VALDEZ

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Каларада-Спрынгс, Круг. (Кастрычнік 5, 2018) — 1972 Бронзавы прызёр Алімпійскіх гульняў Jesse Valdez, who was an outstanding amateur boxer, never turned pro because he chose security for his family rather than take a risk and parlay his amateur pedigree into a prize fighting career.

 

 

 

Valdez first went to the local Boys’ Club when he was 11. The youngest of seven children in a low-income family, headed by his single mother, in which the kids all slept in one bedroom, girls in a bed, boys on the floor, sharing space with cockroaches.

 

 

 

“I started going to the club and I guess I did well because I started beating older and bigger guys,” Valdez remembered. One day a coach asked me if I was interested in learning how to box. На 11, USA Boxing people were interested in me, not me the boxer, and they always gave me guidance. Because of my background, I knew I wouldn’t be going to college, and these people helped me and gave me guidance.

 

 

 

У 1964, 16-year-old Valdez upset Olympic bronze medalist Quincey Daniels at the National AAU Championship in the welterweight division, and later that year he qualitied for the U.S. Olympic Team as an alternate. Valdez captured a gold medal at the1967 National Golden Gloves in the light middleweight weight class and he added a bronze medal from the prestigious Pan-American Games.

 

 

 

“I wanted to be a better boxer and that (defeating Daniels) also helped me become a better person. I had never traveled outside of Texas before then. I went to the Regionals and Nationals and then I was asked if I wanted to go to East Africa. All I knew about Africa was Tarzan, Jane and Cheetah. In high school, I was offered college scholarships, but my grades were bad because I spent more time out than in school. I didn’t have a father figure.”

 

 

 

While he served in the U.S. ВПС, Valdez won a gold medal at the 1970 Нацыянальны чэмпіянат AAU у лёгкім сярэднім вазе і два гады праз, ён стаў 1972 Нацыянальны чэмпіён "Залатых пальчатак" у сярэднім вазе. Алімпійская каманда ЗША другі раз выступае ў 1968, трэці раз быў зачараваннем для Вальдэса, якія прэтэндавалі на 1972 U.S. Алімпійская зборная па боксе, перамогшы будучага чэмпіёна свету Эдзі Мустафа Мухамад.

 

 

 

“Мая мара спраўдзілася ў 1964 годзе,” - адзначыў Вальдэс. “Я быў заменнікам алімпійскай зборнай ЗША 1964 і зноў у 1968. Але ў 1972, Я хацеў заваяваць залаты медаль, нават калі я атрымаў бронзу.”

 

 

 

Вальдэс стаў вядомым у Амерыцы, таму што яго алімпійскія баі ў Мюнхене, Германія, у эфіры ў прамым эфіры Шырокі свет спорту ABC, узнагароджанае суботні днём шоў на працягу сямідзесятых, калі легендарны дыктар Говард Cosell узяў бляск у Вальдэс. На жаль, У паўфінале Джэсі выбыла з золата, Эміліа Карэа, у выніку спрэчнага рашэння, and Jesse settled for a bronze medal.

 

 

 

The 1972 Алімпійскія гульні, аднак, is sadly remembered for the deaths of 11 Israeli athletes and coaches taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group, Black September.

 

 

 

“The Olympic village was built in a circle,” Valdez explained. “There were athletes everywhere from all around the world. My roommate and I had a routine after eating. We walked to digest our food and that night we started to walk, when guards with guns and rifles wouldn’t let anybody go past them. We didn’t know why and didn’t speak German. We then asked our coaches what had happened, and they said people were shot that afternoon. Пазней, we saw what happened on television.

 

 

 

“I was team captain and all the captains from every sport were asked what the athletes wanted to do, continue (competing) or go home. Мы вырашылі пайсці далей, таму што, калі б мы спыніліся, вось што яны (тэрарысты) хацелі. Аднойчы Алімпіяда была спынена з нагоды памятнага знака памерлых.”

 

 

КОМАНДА ЗША супраць. КАМАНДНАЯ ГЕРМАНІЯ, Кастрычнік. 6 & 12 у Чатанозе

 

 

 

Каманда ЗША і каманда Германіі, дзве з лепшых сусветных праграм аматарскага бокса, сустрэнуцца ў Чатанузе, Тэнэсі, за два асобныя паядынкі, якія праходзяць у суботу, Кастрычнік 6 і пятніца, Кастрычнік. 12, у канферэнц -цэнтры Чаттанугі.

 

 

 

У паядынках выступяць некаторыя з лепшых элітных баксёраў і жанчын падчас падрыхтоўкі да алімпійскіх гульняў 2020. Гэтыя два мерапрыемствы пройдуць разам з адборачным этапам Усходняй эліты гэтага года & Адкрыты чэмпіянат вобласці, як чакаецца, будзе больш 650 баксёры, ва ўзросце 8-40, спаборнічаць з кастрычніка. 8-13.

 

 

 

 

Пасля 1972 Алімпійскія гульні, прамоўтэры выстраіліся, каб прапанаваць Вальдэсу прафесійны кантракт, but he quickly turned down all offers having other options as well. He could have remained in the Air Force and been a coach. Замест, he accepted an offer from a Houston television station that wanted to benefit from hiring the Olympic bronze medalist returning home. Valdez became a reporter and the station’s ratings immediately went up, but other reporters became jealous and that became a problem for Jesse. Спачатку, he contemplated a return to the Air Force, but Valdez liked working in television and he became a photo journalist until he retired in 2005.

 

 

 

Why not take advantage of his fame as an Olympic bronze medalist and turn pro?

 

 

 

“Калі я быў 14 або 15 there were pros training at the gym I went to after school,” Valdez explained, “There was one professional boxer there I really liked and looked up to. He was a world champion, who will remain nameless, and I watched him work out. I’ll never forget, he asked me if he could borrow $1.00. I didn’t even have a nickel and that really opened my eyes. Here was a world champion asking me for money. It stuck in my mind. I took a job as a reporter because I really needed (medical) benefits.

 

 

 

“I try to go to clubs and help amateurs, but I don’t watch pro fights.”

 

Асацыяцыя выпускнікоў бокса ЗША

 

 

 

Created to champion a lifelong, mutually beneficial relations between USA Boxing and its alumni, –баксёры, чыноўнікі, трэнеры і балельшчыкі — Асацыяцыя выпускнікоў аб'ядноўвае пакаленні чэмпіёнаў, натхняе і аддае будучым чэмпіёнам па боксе ЗША, ў і з кальца.

 

 

 

Асацыяцыя выпускнікоў бокса ЗША адкрыта для ўсіх, хто мае любоў да бокса і хацеў бы заставацца на сувязі з аматарскім боксам.. Удзельнікі атрымліваюць доступ да самых розных спецыяльных мерапрыемстваў, якія праводзяцца Асацыяцыяй выпускнікоў, у тым ліку яго штогадовы ЗША бокса Асацыяцыі выпускнікоў Зала славы прыёму.

 

 

 

Для таго, каб уступіць у Асацыяцыю выпускнікоў, проста зарэгістравацца на alumni@usaboxing.org дзеля $40.00 у год членскі ўзнос. Новыя ўдзельнікі атрымаюць футболку, брелок для ключоў і электронны кашалёк.

 

 

 

 

Зараз 70, the Mexican-American from Houston has never regretted the decision he made nearly a half-century ago, або, вядома, his experience at the 1972 Алімпійскія гульні. Jesse Valdez has become a valued speaker for the USA Boxing Alumni Association.

 

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Знаходзяцца & Holyfield to be inducted this Friday into USA Boxing Alumni Hall of Fame inaugural class

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Снежні. 5-9 in Salt Lake City, Utah
Каларада-Спрынгс, Круг. (Снежні 5, 2017) – The fledgling USA Boxing Alumni Association will host a gala reception ў гэтую пятніцу ноч (Dec.) 8, highlighted by the induction of the inaugural class of the USA Boxing Alumni Hall of Fame, at the Courtyard by Marriott Downtown in Salk Lake City, Utah.
The reception is being held in conjunction with the 2017 USA Boxing Elite and Youth National Championships and Junior and Prep Open, Снежні. 5-9, also held in Salt Lake City.
Created to champion a lifelong, mutually beneficial relations between USA Boxing and its alumni, –баксёры, чыноўнікі, трэнеры і балельшчыкі — Асацыяцыя выпускнікоў аб'ядноўвае пакаленні чэмпіёнаў, натхняе і аддае будучым чэмпіёнам па боксе ЗША, ў і з кальца.
“The Alumni Association will bring together former boxers, coaches and official who have reached all levels of success in amateur boxing, as well as people who have all over for Olympic-style boxing,” explained Mike McAtee, USA Boxing Executive Director. “This association will help expand our grassroots and create fight champions of USA Boxing and alumni members.”
“Найвялікшы” і “The Real Deal”, адпаведна, Мухамед Алі і Эвандер Холіфілд, will be the first boxers inducted into the USA Boxing Alumni Association Hall of Fame, joining two others, veteran coaches Roosevelt Sanders і Tom Coulter, also being inducted as charter members.
The late Ali is the lone three-time lineal world heavyweight champion of all-time, who as an amateur (known then as Cassius Clay), атрымаў залаты медаль на 1960 Olympics in Rome.
Holyfield was the first and remains the only undisputed cruiserweight and heavyweight world champion. На 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, Holyfield won a bronze medal as a light heavyweight, after a he suffered a questionable disqualification in his semifinals match. Раней у гэтым годзе, Holyfield started his promotional company, The Real; Deal Boxing.
A 1993 USA Boxing Hall of Fame inductee, Roosevelt coached the U.S. Marines boxing team in 1975-1978 і 1988-2000. He also served as assistant coach on the USA Olympic boxing teams in 1984 і 1992.
Coulter has been a boxing coach for more than 62 гады, continuing to conduct boxing clinics today around the glove. In addition to coaching the iconic 1988 USA Olympic boxing team, which captured eight individual medals, he was a consultant for the 1996 squad that won 14 meals. A national boxing champion at Syracuse University, Coulter also coaches the U.S. Army Boxing Team.
Зала славы Міжнароднага бокса Аль Бернштэйна will serve as Master of ceremonies for Пятніцы падзея. “USA Boxing makes a positive difference in the lives of thousands and thousands of young people ion a daily basis,” the voice of Showtime Boxing said,” and I am so honored to serve as emcee for the inaugural USA Boxing Alumni Association Hall of Fame Reception. This new arm of USA Boxing will be a terrific addition to an already great organization. I look forward to it.”.
Four Olympic medalists from Team USA will be in attendance: 1984 gold medalist Paul Gonzales, 1984 і 1988 silver medalists, адпаведна, Вирджил Хіл і Michael Carbajal, і 1972 bronze medalist Jessie Valdez.
Other boxing dignitaries who are confirmed attendees include 1992 Алімпіец Рауль Маркес, Hall of Fame referee Steve Smoger, National Golden Gloves champion and NBC boxing announcer B.J. Кветкі, three-time New England Golden Gloves champion“Ірландскі” Мікі Уорд, former Air Force Academy coach Eddie Welchers, Rocky Mountain Golden Gloves franchise tournament director Larry Fullmer and others.
Асацыяцыя выпускнікоў бокса ЗША адкрыта для ўсіх, хто мае любоў да бокса і хацеў бы заставацца на сувязі з аматарскім боксам.. Members are granted access to a wide variety of special events host by the Alumni Association, including Friday evening’s USA Boxing Alumni Association Hall of Fame reception.
Для таго, каб уступіць у Асацыяцыю выпускнікоў, проста зарэгістравацца на alumni@usaboxing.org дзеля $40.00 у год членскі ўзнос. Новыя ўдзельнікі атрымаюць футболку, брелок для ключоў і электронны кашалёк.
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USA Boxing Alumni Association Open for Registration

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Каларада-Спрынгс, Круг. (Лістапада 2, 2017). – The newly created USA Boxing Alumni Association registration is officially open for those interested in becoming members.
The Alumni Association, which was created to champion a lifelong, mutually beneficial relations between USA Boxing and its alumni, including boxers, чыноўнікі, трэнеры і балельшчыкі, will help connect generations of champions, as well as help inspire and give back to USA Boxing’s future boxing champions inside and outside the ring.
“The Alumni Association will bring together former boxers, coaches and officials that have reached all levels of success in amateur boxing, as well as people who have a love for Olympic-style boxing,” пракаментаваў Mike McAtee, USA Boxing Executive Director. “This association will help expand our grassroots and help create the future champions of USA Boxing and alumni members.”
Open to anyone possessing a love for the sport and looking to stay connected with amateur boxing, the Alumni Association members are granted access to a variety of special events that will be hosted by the Alumni Association, including the first annual USA boxing Alumni Association Hall of Fame reception.
The reception, which will honor and celebrate the five inaugural members of the Alumni Association Hall of Fame, will be held on Снежні 8 in Salt Lake City in conjunction with the 2017 USA Boxing Elite and Youth National Championships & Junior and Prep Open. The five inductees include:
  • Мухамед Алі
  • Tom Coulter
  • Buddy Davis
  • Эвандер Холіфілд
  • Roosevelt Sanders
World-renowned CBS and Showtime announcer Аль Бернштэйна will serve as Master of Ceremonies for the event.
“USA Boxing makes a positive difference in the lives of thousands and thousands of young people on a daily basis, and I am so honored to serve as emcee for the inaugural USA Boxing Alumni Association Hall of Fame Reception. This new arm of USA Boxing will be a terrific addition to an already great organization,” Бернштэйн заявіў,. “I look forward to a great week.”
In addition to Bernstein’s role as emcee, many esteemed members of the USA Boxing alumni community are scheduled to attend the inaugural event, у тым ліку: Michael Carbajal, BJ Флорэс, Larry Fullmer, Вирджил Хіл, Рауль Маркес, Steve Smoger,Jesse Valdez, Мікі Уорд і Eddie Weichers.
When joining, which cost $40/year, new members will be given a t-shirt, брелок для ключоў і электронны кашалёк. For more information on the USA Boxing Alumni Association, калі ласка, звяжыцеся з alumni@usaboxing.org або візіт USABoxing.org
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Inaugural USA Boxing Alumni Association

Hall of Fame Reception to be held Снежні. 8 in Salt Lake City
Аб ЗША БОКС: The mission of USA Boxing shall be to enable United States’ athletes and coaches to achieve sustained competitive excellence, развіваць характар, падтрымка спорту па боксе, and promote and grow Olympic style boxing in the United States. The responsibility of USA Boxing is not only to produce Olympic gold, but also oversee every aspect of amateur boxing in the United States.