Max Boxing – Sub Lead – Remembering a True Champion

Legendary Fort Value, Texas boxing coach Paul Reyes, handed away peacefully at age 85 final week. He had been battling critical well being challenges.

When you grew up within the 80s you bear in mind the quiet, well-spoken coach within the nook of the robust and proficient group of fighters out of supervisor Dave Gorman’s Tremendous Professional’s Fitness center in Fort Value. As common staples on Saturday afternoon community tv, Reyes and his fighters had been no stranger to struggle followers.

The Lone Star State was pink sizzling for boxing again then, and Gorman’s health club was churning out some good ones. And, within the nook for many of the fighters was the recognizable face of Paul Reyes.

A quiet man out of the ring, he was nicely revered within the business for the work he did with fighters of all types. From a tough and rugged banger like Gene Hatcher, a face-first brawler like Troy Dorsey, to proficient boxer-puncher like Paulie Ayala to P4P KO artist Donald Curry, as soon as thought-about among the many highest within the sport, Reyes fine-tuned all of them.

Together with Curry, Ayala, Dorsey, and Hatcher, Reyes additionally labored with world champion Stevie Cruz, amongst many others.

Reyes was inducted into the Texas Boxing Corridor of Fame in 2022, together with Curry, Ayala, Cruz, Dorsey, and Hatcher.

Congratulations on an ideal profession Paul.

Gone however not forgotten.

Relaxation in Peace.