Under-19
Championships Four Michigan boxers are in Kansas City this week hoping to return home with a championship title at the Under-19 National Championships that start today. As in 2006, the national tournament is being held in conjunction with this year’s Ringside World Championships in Kansas City, Missouri. Seventy-eight boxers, aged 17-18, are expected to participate this year. Raesse Aleem. 18, and Joel Flores, 17, of the Muskegon Area Boxing Club (MABC) are set to compete at 125- and 132-lbs, respectively, while the Saginaw Boxing Club’s Jose Bernal, 17, is fighting at 152-lbs and his teammate Morris Young will compete at 141-lbs. Anthony Barnes, a recent transplant to the Kronk Gym, was registered for the tournament but decided not to travel for the event. Flores and Young are among sixteen boxers that will start off with preliminary round action at 11:00 am today. Aleem and Bernal will likely compete on Thursday. Winners
of the tournament are eligible to compete at Worlds, or formally
the AIBA Youth World Championships, which are being held this year
in Mexico in late October.
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