US Olympian Carlos Balderas Signs with Schaefer, debuts as Pro on Sunday at LA
By Ed de la Vega, DDS
PhilBoxing.com
Sun, 09 Apr 2017
Sta. Maria, California?s pride, Carlos Balderas, the first boxer to make it as a member of the USA Boxing Team that represented the USA at last summer?s Olympic Games at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil recently turned pro and signed with the Richard Schaefer Promotions.
Balderas will be fighting on Sunday, April 8, 2017 at the LA Live in downtown Los Angeles. In the same card will be the other Olympians signed by Schaefer.
Balderas was steered to boxing by his dad, Zenon because he was fighting in the streets and got in trouble in school ?He needed a place to pour out his excess energy?, the elder Balderas stated to us when he first brought Carlos to our offices when he was barely 8 years old to get a mouthguard fitted. From then own Carlos never went to a fight through out his amateur career without our mouthguards.
Carlos did very well as an amateur, particularly in 2015 at the World Series of Boxing. Balderas represented the USA Knockouts in the World Series of Boxing. He took part in five bouts, defeating Fabio Introvaia of Italy, Dawid Michelus of Poland, Brian Nunez of Argentina and Adrian Javier Martinez Morales of Puerto Rico but losing to Azerbaijan's Albert Selimov when he was cut because of a headbutt. In 2016 he won his first two bouts against Lindolfo Delgado and Moroccan Hamza Rabii.
Because of his record at the World Series of Boxing, he did not have to go through the qualifying fights to be a member of the USA Boxing Team. He qualified outright.
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