Glen Tapia - Fighters – Top Rank Boxing

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Weightclass:: Middleweight
Age:: 23
Birthplace:: Passaic, NJ
Record:: 18-0, 10 KOs

Height:: 5'11"
Reach:: 73
Managers:: Pat Lynch, Sal Alessi
Trainers:: "Mikey Red" Mike Skowronski

biography

Twitter: @RealGlenTapia
2006 Junior Olympic National Championships (amateur), 145 Pounds – Gold Medalist...

At the age of 23, Glen is a three-year pro. A rising young prospect at 154 pounds, he has stayed active in the ring and made good progress.
He has an exciting, hard-hitting style and always makes exciting fights.
Glen is coming off a first-round knockout win against Franklin Gonzalez in his last fight on August 18.
From Boxingscene.com, by Keith Idec [Aug. 18, 2012 - excerpts]: Glen Tapia competed in his first scheduled eight-round fight Saturday night.
The junior middleweight from Passaic feels as though he is ready for 12-round fights, but matchmakers for his primary promoter, Bob Arum’s Top Rank, want to move him incrementally as the talented Tapia attempts to make the transition from top prospect to legitimate contender at 154 pounds. But they even believe it is time to test Tapia against higher-caliber opposition.
Tapia welcomes the challenge, especially after tearing through late replacement Franklin Gonzalez in just 2:05 at Bally’s Events Center.
“I feel like I’m going to be ready to fight anybody soon enough,” said Tapia, who improved to 15-0 and recorded his ninth knockout after flooring Gonzalez twice in the first round. “I feel like I’m ready to fight 12 rounds now because I’m training so hard. But whatever they want me to do, I’ll do. I’ll take my time and once I get these rounds in, in two more years I’ll be ready to do it at the highest level and be in that top spot.”
Tapia has more motivation than ever to reach boxing’s elite level. His first child, Isabella, was born Aug. 5.
“It’s just always in the back of my mind now that I can’t slip up,” Tapia said. “I...

fight history

Fight by Fight – 2012 - in his last fight on 8-18-12 in Atlantic City, NJ, he knocked out late substitute Franklin Gonzalez (15-10): the fight was co-featured at Bally’s, and Glen quickly overpowered him; he scored two knockdowns in the 1st round, and Gonzalez was counted out at 2:05…
On 7-7-12 in Toa Baja, PR, he TKOd Carlos Garcia (6-10-1): the fight was co-featured at Coliseo Antonio R. Barcelo, and Glen quickly overwhelmed Garcia; he scored a knockdown with a left hook in the 1st round, and Garcia was counted out at 2:00…
On 4-27-12 in Reading, PA, he knocked out Manuel Guzman (7-15-2): the fight was co-featured at the Reverb Club, and Glen dominated; he outworked Guzman, landed the harder punches, and scored a knockdown with a series of punches in the 3rd round; he scored another knockdown with a series of punches in the 3rd, and Guzman was counted out at 0:27…

2011 - on 12-3-11 in New York, NY, knocked out Mike Ruiz (15-6): the fight was on the undercard of the Miguel Cotto-Antonio Margarito II main event, and Glen quickly overpowered him; Ruiz rocked Glen in the 2nd round, but Glen came back and staggered him with a series of punches, then scored a devastating knockdown with a right hand and Ruiz was counted out at 2:27
On 9-16-11 in South Bend, IN, he won a 6 round unanimous decision against Marcus Thompkins (5-4-1): the fight was co-featured at the Joyce Center at Notre Dame University – alumnus Mike Lee headlined the first boxing card ever held on campus – and Glen dominated; he consistently outworked Thompkins and landed the harder punches; Glen scored a knockdown in the 2nd round, then scored another knockdown in the 3rd; scored 60-52 on all three scorecards…
On 6-25-11 in Philadelphia, PA, he won a 6 round unanimous decision against...

background

AMATEUR, PERSONAL BACKGROUND: Glen said, “I was born and raised in Passaic, New Jersey. I got an older brother, he’s four years older than me, and a younger sister sister, she’s four years younger than me. My mom works for a water company in the city, and my father works at DPW in the city – public works. My grandfather on my mother’s side was a boxer in the Dominican Republic. He used to box out there as an amateur.
“I started boxing when I was eight years old. My brother used to box, and I started because of him. Then I started falling off of it - when I was like, nine, I was leaving the gym. I used to fight a lot in the streets, then George Martinez, he’s my other coach, he was a cop, he put me back into boxing. He got me to be serious about it. He used to hear about me and what I was doing, and it was like a punishment a little bit for fighting in the street. He just told me to stay in the gym – he said, ‘Come on, you got to do this!’ So he brought me back. He really saved my life. It gave me something to do.
“I had 143 amateur fights, with 13 losses. I won the Junior Olympic Nationals in 2006. I competed in a couple of other nationals when I was younger. I won the Silver Gloves in 2003, I think. I was like, 95 pounds - I was a little kid. I won the Ringside Tournament in 2004, I think, at 119. I used to be short, so I had to brawl to come in.”…
AMATEUR HIGHLIGHTS:
2008 U.S. NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS - Colorado Springs, Colorado, 152 pounds: in his first fight on 3-10-08 he lost a 13-10 decision against Errol Spence…
2006 WORLD CADET CHAMPIONSHIPS - Istanbul, Turkey, 145 pounds – BRONZE MEDALIST: in his first fight on 8-6-06 he stopped Jamsran Chulvunbaatar of Mongolia; in the quarterfinals on 8-9-06 he won a 16-14 decision against Batirjon Makhmudov of Uzbekistan; in the semifinals on 8-12-06 he lost...

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