Two Eagle Passans compete in Ringside World Boxing Championship

By: Ricardo E. Calderon, Eagle Pass Business Journal, Inc., Copyright 2016

Two Eagle Pass Boys and Girls Club members are participating in the 2016 Ringside World Boxing Championship during July 25-July 31, 2016 in Kansas City, Missouri, announced Alfonso Mallen, Executive Director of the Eagle Pass Boys and Girls Club.

Representing Eagle Pass Boys and Girls Club at the Ringside World Boxing Championship are 18 year old Areli Moncada and 29 year old Rigoberto Marines, Jr.

Areli Moncada is a 2016 graduate of Eagle Pass High School and plans to attend Southwest Texas Junior College in Eagle Pass in the Fall Semester 2016 and wants to become a Registered Nurse.

Moncada is a novice female boxer with one amateur bout of experience.  Moncada stated that she “plans to do well at the Ringside World Championship and has been training very hard to bring back a championship.”

Moncada will compete in the Novice Female-165 pounds division at the Ringside World Boxing Championship.

Areli Moncada is the daughter of Norma Estrada and Ramiro Moncada of Eagle Pass.

Also representing Eagle Pass will be Rigoberto Marines, Jr. In the Novice-141 pounds/Lightweight division.  Marines has eight amateur fights of experience with a 7-1 record.

Marines stated that he has trained daily and hard in order to win the championship in his division.  He plans to turn professional next year in 2017.

He taught Automotive Technology at C. C. Winn High School for two years and just received his Master’s Degree in Education Counseling from Sul Ross State University-Rio Grande College.

Marines is the son of Sonia and Rigoberto Marines of Eagle Pass.

Eagle Pass Boys and Girls Club Executive Director Alfonso Mallen stated that both Areli Moncada and Rigoberto Marines, Jr. Have trained extremely well and should gain valuable experience at the world’s largest boxing tournament at the Ringside Boxing Championship at Kansas City, Missouri.