by Sarah Jane Anaya (Read Part One , Part Two , and Part Three of This Series) I was born in a small town of less than a 1000 people in northern Wisconsin, raised by hard working parents on a vegetable farm. We raised mostly cabbage and pickles, so I am literally a farmer's daughter . As young as I can remember, I had big city dreams of moving to New York, riding the … [Read more...]
My Life as a Boxer’s Wife: King Carlos Molina’s Queen (Part Two)
by Sarah Jane Anaya (For Part 1 of This Series, Click HERE) It is Father's day, a quiet Sunday morning two days before we depart for Paris. Most families are waking up with special father's day breakfasts and special plans, but we have a fight scheduled and it's close . This is not the first holiday we have set aside due to a approaching bout. Carlos is watching his … [Read more...]
My Life as a Boxer’s Wife: King Carlos Molina’s Queen (Part One)
by Sarah Jane Anaya Two cups of coffee sit steaming on the kitchen table, his dark with a little skim, mine pale with cream and sugar . The sun is barely up and we are discussing the checklist for everything left to do before we depart to France next week [for Carlos Molina's June 23 bout against Souleymane Cissokho]. Certain things we don’t talk about this close to the … [Read more...]
Busting popular boxing myths
Boxing as a sport is misread quite a lot by the general populace. If your knowledge of this sport comes majorly from the popular bouts and the television programs, it might be the best time to master this sport’s basics and do away with the myths related to it. Why?! There’s a major fight – Mayweather vs McGregor – round the corner! You can get all the important Mayweather vs … [Read more...]
Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.: The Career Postmortem
"It may seem as though Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. was born a made man, but back in 2008, when fans in Hermosillo, Sonora pelted the ring with garbage and cups of beer in protest of his controversial split decision win over Minnesota’s Matt Vanda, he certainly didn’t seem to be living a charmed in-ring life. Jr. sat in his corner, dejected and deflated, protected from the debris … [Read more...]