From noon until past midnight, they'll listen to emerging artists and superstars alike. Ted Sares is one of the oldest active full power lifters in the world. 2,235 Followers, 54 Following, 49 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Diaz Brothers (@thediaztrainingcamp) With this loss, that now becomes more difficult. "What's going on?" They all stand behind the heavy black curtain separating the dressing rooms from the ring. Other fighters like Argentinas Matthysse have arrived too and will be living and training in the remote desert gym. It's where Garcia once got punched in the face so hard he understood that boxing wasn't for him. Boxing Pro 21 bouts date w-l-d last 6 result; 1997-04-26: Jose Luis Montes: 9 17 0: Fantasy Springs Casino, Indio W-TKO. Kids come after school to hit the bag and spar, too. At the screening, coach Diaz was enjoying the moment with his friends and family. The day after Diaz is gone, Mucio and Acosta will leave too. Acosta walks down the hall, surrounded by about a dozen people. Yes, you can learn things here as a boxer that will help you win. Daz, along with two of his brothers, Joel and Julio, are former professional boxers who fought for world titles after being raised in Coachella. Although Mattice vs. Hamazaryan was a supporting bout, it aired live on ShoBox. "Nobody pushed me, I pushed myself," he says, remembering how he'd wake up to run hours before school. Andrew John is a reporterfor The Desert Sun and the USA TODAY Network. I would like to thank him, said Munguia about Bennetts refusal to allow him to fight Golovkin. Photos: Boxing trainer Joel Daz to open new gym in Indio Skip to main content No loss is good, but Diaz says he's learned from it. Now seven casinos have opened their doors in the desert region and most of them have held boxing cards at one time or another. A post shared by Jorge Newman (@jorgenewman13). Questions ahead of Paul vs. Diaz: Can Diaz box? Hes put in so much work on that place, said Diazs adult son, Joel Diaz Jr. Now, when hes in that building, you can tell that hes at home. 232: Fundora Mendoza and More on a Deep Saturday of Boxing, Why Tapales vs Akhmadaliev Promises Fireworks This Saturday, Tank Davis Stops Ryan Garcia with a Near-Invisible but Lethal Body Shot, Literary Notes: Last on His Feet: Jack Johnson and the Battle of the Century, Brian Mendoza KOs Sebastian Fundora in a Shocker. This energy, this level of commitment, is also one of the things that draws fighters to Indio. Three years ago Diego De La Hoya, Jamie Kavanagh, Manuel Mendez and brothers Jessie and Diego Magdaleno arrived. Located about 128 miles east of Los Angeles and 95 miles north of the Mexican border, the Indio Boys and Girls club gym is roughly in the middle of nowhere unless you like golf. That side is where most of the Coachella Valley's tourist industry is centered. Many of the fighters showcased at Fantasy Springs Casino and other surrounding casinos come from Joel and Antonio Diazs group and include prizefighters from all over the country and internationally. Hed sit, often by himself, in the early stages of the project drawing designs from his ideas for the space. And if all that weren't enough, there's always someone calling his phone. Divisional rankings: Where do Gervonta Davis and Ryan Garcia land after their megafight? Boxing pound-for-pound rankings: Did Gervonta Davis make the top 10? I would sit at that table and eat, drink, write and sleep, Diaz said. boxing gym for the good words. Contreras and Sinnett, residents of Omaha, were singled out for their scorecards in the match between lightweights Thomas Mattice and Zhora Hamazaryan, an eight round contest staged at the WinnaVegas Casino in Sloan, Iowa on July 20. Their relationship grew, brought closer by pain and uncertainty. He nods as he smiles and makes a fist too. The Diaz coaching staff suddenly became world famous too and their gym began filling up with more boxers from not just the Coachella Valley region but from other parts of the country as well. Monday Morning Cornermen (Nov. 6 edition), The Hauser Report: Wilder-Stiverne and More from Barclays Center, In an unprecedented development, the Boxing Writers Association of America has started a watch list to lift the curtain on ring officials who have screwed up. Veteran Texas referee Laurence Cole and Nebraska judges Mike Contreras and Jeff Sinnett have the unwelcome distinction of being the first honorees., Boxing is a sport where judges and referees are rarely held accountable for poor performances that unfairly change the course of a fighters career and, in some instances, endanger lives, says the BWAA in a preamble to the new feature. It's the sameness of a daily routine, made a bit easier by a few inside jokes at the gym. The facility also has locker rooms and restrooms for men and womenand willeventually include saunas, a laundry room and massive office space. We knew that he came like from nothing, no connections, no money, and then after that he had troubles and it wasnt like easy at all for him, says Jorge Newman. His voice rises above the rhythmic sounds of speed bags thumping, above the jump rope slapping the floor, above the grunts of those who sound as if they're fighting for their lives. The building will have bathrooms and locker rooms for men and women, a sauna, a private space for ice baths and two boxing rings. They've been married for two years, splitting their time between Mexico, where she's from, and Puerto Rico, where he's from. "The gallo is the bravest animal in the world," Diaz answers when I ask him why the gamecock is in the middle of his gym's logo. He built his camp from the ground up, starting with a twice-burned-down building he bought ten years ago for $230,000 dollars. He said that he expects the gym to live on long after he one day retires. Explore . Diaz, the eldest brother in a boxing family that produced two world champions in brothers Antonio and Julio, worked out of the Indio Boys & Girls Club for close to 18 years. "These guys" were the coyote and his family -- his wife, mother and kids -- who drove them for over a day from their rancho in the mountains of Michoacan, Mexico to an unincorporated part of eastern Coachella Valley. He says this side of Coachella is where fighters come from, and he swells with pride whenever he sees them on television. Ive always wanted to be a world champion since I was old enough to fight.. He's still in the ring, talking into a microphone, saying he wants to fight for a world championship next. But when it's time to fight, they train in Diaz's gym, in part because his strong personality reminds them of Mucio's father. Diaz doesn't know of the tension in the dressing room shared by three of his boxers on the Thursday night card. Still beaming over his newfound recognition, Munguia has grand plans for his future including challenging all of the other champions in his weight category and the next weight division. If you enjoy honest and heartfelt talk about life and boxing then read on, you won't be disappointed. Even the transients who I asked to leave, when they see me, they ask, Hey Coach, hows the gym coming along?. Decades ago, when this part of Coachella, the city -- right next to Indio -- looked abandoned, the building housed a crumbling boxing gym. Monroe St Indio CA 92201. Too fought too, even though he wanted to go to college, but that wasn't financially possible. Coles agency is purportedly in the top two nationally in writing these policies. The festival is part of the valley's annual $7.5 billion tourist industry that attracts more than 13 million people a year. Diaz knows it was an accident. "I got to get these guys ready," Diaz says. Waiting for his time just like a scorpion in the desert heat. He'sexcited about it, and I'm happy for him.". As the water supply diminishes, some of those golf courses consume up to a million gallons a day. How a trainer in California's Coachella Valley built one of the most important boxing gyms in the world - ESPN Skip to main content Skip to navigation Search You have come to the Philippines Edition, for other ESPN editions, click here. All he had to do was hang in there and the title would change hands on points. It's now a restaurant. Other talents have learned from Joel's assertive style of fighting. Let us know. On Saturday, June 18th, NBC Palm Springs had an exclusive first look at a documentary on the life of local boxing trainer, Joel Diaz. Phone: (760) 424-8888. He admitted to being in the middle of a whirlwind that is spinning beyond his expectations. The pain of losing a child during pregnancy. "You should tell someone," Too told Joel. It would not be safe, he wastold. This win made Daz the number one rated contender and mandatory to then WBC lightweight champion, Stevie Johnston. where the gym will be located. There were so many fighters, in 1996, the city built Espinoza a 9,000 square foot gym and named it after him. Hes home. During the fight, Salido made a mockery of the Queensberry rules for which he received no point deductions and only one warning. A painter offered to paint the inside for free and others offered to handle the plumbing at no charge. He might see everything, but he can't be everywhere. Once a highly touted prospect he states his biggest loss was to Regis Prograis in 2017 when he fought the soon to be light welterweight world champion and was stopped in the second round. He'd bought his parents used cars and earned enough for a down payment on a modest house where all nine of them -- five brothers, two sisters, his mother and father -- could live. More. In his rationale for calling out Cole, BWAA prexy Joseph Santoliquito leaned heavily on Thomas Hausers critique of Coles performance in The Sweet Science. She has to do the same work as the guys. "Joel, do you have adrenaline?" The gym is located in California's Coachella Valley, in the desert town of Indio, roughly 120 miles away from Los Angeles. After a year building his own boxing gym in Indio, doing much of the work by himself, trainer Joel Diaz is close toopening it to the community. The list goes on. He's on the main ring, next to the banner with his logo on it, a gamecock wearing boxing gloves, circled by the gym's name: Joel Diaz Training Camp. The uncertainty of changing trainers that far into their careers. The building, which boasts 10-foot ceilings, is around three timesthe space the Diaz brothers had at the Boys & Girls Club. At its best, it's a low frequency hum. His opponent hung on for dear life. So this former champ moved it out to the desert, More: Riverside County reports 3,901 additional coronavirus cases, 53 new deaths Wednesday. As he explains it now, a few months after that experience, Joel walked into the boxing gym in downtown Coachella. More have arrived recently including the first female prizefighter to step in the gym full time in middleweight contender Maricela Cornejo. Joel Diaz fought for the IBF world title against South Africa's Phillip Holiday in 1996 and lost by decision. With pipes, tire irons and brass knuckles, Teamsters tried to intimidate the United Farm Workers out of contracts with growers. Its not getting a large amount of attention in my neighborhood but this unification clash between WBA and IBF cruiserweight titlist Murat Gassiev (26-0, 19 KOs) and WBC and WBO cruiserweight titlist Oleksandr Usyk (14-0, 11 KOs) has historic ramifications tagged all over it. "WE STARTED WITH THIS," says trainer Librado "Lee" Espinoza, pointing at a yellowed newspaper article taped to the wall of his gym. Check out more boxing news on video at The Boxing Channel. Car share apps charge $40 for a two-minute ride to the festival grounds. That's what ultimately led him to politics, becoming Coachella's first elected mayor in 2006. Recently Diego De La Hoya has emerged as a budding young star who is just about ready to enter the big time. In boxing and in life, it is always better to give than to receive. He would fight one more time before retiring as a fighter and continuing as a trainer. Sometimes things happen for a reason, Diaz said on a weekday in early January, inside a gutted 6,250-square-foot building on Indio Blvd. Sincetheir typically rigorous training schedule has been a little slower over the last year because of how the pandemic has reduced the number of fights in the sport, the Diaz brothers have had time to spend preparing the new gym, doing much of the work themselves. We always have a lot of things going on, said Joel Diaz. HBO will televise. Joel was close to delivering on the promise he made to his mother, who didn't want him fighting. Welcome to the world of Mexicos Jaime Munguia (29-0, 25 KOs) the WBO super welterweight world titlist who meets Englands Liam Smith (26-1-1, 14 KOs) at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas on Saturday, July 21. "Those types of values and principles are instilled in the kids many times. In two rings beside each other, there are two fights going on at the same time. Heavy bags, speed bags, weights, chin-up bars and two boxing rings are all used simultaneously by the different boxers. You are overpowered. Diaz surrenders to New Orleans police after brawl, Paul launches series for up-and-coming boxers, Ramirez to defend WBO title vs. Shimizu in July. With nothing else to do, Diaz stops singing and helps Flores warm up. The unification fight takes place in Moscow, Russia and will be streamed via Klowd TV at 12 p.m. PT/ 3 p.m. Joel's retina was almost entirely detached. After seeing those fields, the man drove them home where the Diaz brothers met their mother, sister and another brother. Back then, to raise funds for travel, Lee sold raffle tickets where the prizes were pigs and cows and TVs. Diaz Jr. (26-2, 22 KOs) is 30 years old and still has dreams of becoming a world champion and won't let two losses detract him from his dream. Luckily, a new smaller promotion company had just started in the Inland Empire called Thompson Boxing Promotions. Joel Diaz said that he is working with his attorney to make the gym a non-profit that will be open to the community and offer programs for kids to provide activities, fitnessand self-defense training. In this age of PEDs there was no mention of testing for the Pacquiao/Matthysse fight. By law in Texas (and in most other states), a boxing promoter must purchase insurance to cover medical costs in the event that one or more of the fighters on his show is seriously injured. Email him at andrew.john@desertsun.com. Hes almost there, said Joel Diaz. 11/10/2019 Theres enough room for two boxing rings, a section with mats for wrestling, treadmills and elliptical machines, heavy bags, speed bags and an area for yoga and other activities. There's a lump on the back of the right side of his head. After a 12 months constructing his personal boxing gymnasium in Indio, doing a lot of the work by himself, coach Joel Diaz is near opening it to the neighborhood. Were going to do that with this gym.. The type of place that looks as if the things happening there are kept secret. It hangs near the old newspapers next to photos of some of the fighters who have visited the gym. "I'd wake up the next day, go home and try finding something to do," he says. More than anything, he looks relieved. He doesn't go. To sacrifice, doing backbreaking work, while being apart from the ones they loved. He simply moves, resets and continues yelling. Reminders of that past are everywhere on the valley's east side, in schools and parks named after Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta. Photos: Indio boxing gym of world-renown trainer Joel Diaz nearing completion Skip to . How he works with the youth, he brings and trains them to show them what it takes to excel in this sport and in life and that is remarkable.. It's the old gym that's now a restaurant, the place where every day he and his fighters swept away plaster and pieces of concrete that fell from the walls. The demand for labor followed. The boxer is one of several Eastern European and Central Asian boxers -- from Uzbekistan and Russia mostly -- who train here. They'll come and leave along with the part-time residents that make this place their part-time home. In the second fight on the card, another one of his fighters, Grant Flores Jr., is warming up for his second career fight by stretching and jumping around. Russian boxer. At the screening, coach Diaz was enjoying the moment with his friends and family. "Tengo que ir?" Munguia stopped by Los Angeles to meet with the media last week and spoke about Bennett and his upcoming first world title defense. It happens. Everything that was originally in the building was taken out to the trash except for a table and chair that he kept as a reminder. Now its Gassiev versus Usyk and four world titles are at stake. Its a small venue near East L.A. and the fight was attended by numerous boxing celebrities such as James Lights Out Toney, Mauricio El Maestro Herrera and Gennady GGG Golovkin. Barrios was like a madman pounding Popo with a variety of wild shots, but with exactly one half of one second to go before the bell ending the round, Freitas caught La Hiena with a monster right hand that caused the Hyena to do the South American version of the chicken dance before he went down with his face horribly bloodied. Last May, Bivol beat Saul "Canelo" Alvarez, a boxer many considered the best in the world. The idea that it was easier to show the separation of Mexican farmworkers, than to explain it, was something that'd been happening for decades. Until he finds out Acosta's bleeding. He trains about 20 professional boxers, and with three of them fighting the next day, tomorrow will be busy. Honestly, it makes me happy because at one point, you know, life is short. For this indiscretion, Cole was prohibited from working a significant fight in Texas for the next six months. Order Online. The Diaz brothers are currently training Avni Yildirim for his Feb. 27 bout versus middleweight champion Canelo Alvarez, and Bektemir Melikuziev for his fight later this month in Russia against former world champion Sergey Kovalev. Joel Diaz Boxing | Indio CA. We dont treat her any differently than we do the men, said Joel Diaz. The gym is clattering with noise from the various boxers working in the different stations. Even if they share just a few words of a common language, they understand each other. Diaz, 47, said he expects the new gym to open in March. He fought because he saw it as his path to escape from the desert where the harsh realities of life operate at high decibels. Diaz, the eldest brother in a boxing family that produced two world champions in brothers. That night the cruiserweight southpaw Usyk bored audiences with his slap happy style until lowering the boom on South Africas Thabiso Mchunu in round nine at the Inglewood Forum. Later, Freitas tarnished his image with a No Mas against Diego Corrales, but he had gone down three times and knew there was no way out. "It's a small, surface level cut.". So he made the best of it, and built a life with his wife and four kids. "She'd have beat the s--- out of me," he answers while smiling. For six days, festival goers from across the country, and world, will pack into the 250 acres of the Empire Polo Club's immaculate green fields.

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