The Worldwide Boxing Pageant KO Medicine returns to Argentina this week and it’s inevitable to evaluation the historical past of this flagship program of the World Boxing Affiliation. Three many years of exhausting work, of effort of the boxing household in several international locations that, as it can occur as soon as once more in Buenos Aires, come collectively to advertise youth with a transparent message in favour of the game.
Created as an initiative to steer younger folks in the direction of a life guided by the wholesome values of sport and away from one of many worst scourges of society, the KO Medicine Pageant has turn out to be a sports-based social accountability program, which has turn out to be a showcase for boxers from so many international locations and assist for social initiatives within the cities which have served as its headquarters.
Two of essentially the most dazzling figures within the 31-year historical past of the KO Medicine had been undoubtedly Gennadi Golovkin and Jorge Linares, who later catapulted to the highest of the world boxing scene. Fighters of the stature of Rosendo Álvarez, Héctor ‘Macho’ Camacho, Kina Malpartida, Luis ‘Nica’ Concepción, Celestino ‘Pelenchin’ Caballero, Ricardo Mayorga, Mayerlin Rivas, Clara Lescurat, Carlos Cañizales and others additionally competed there. Like them, dozens of women and men wrote their very own chapters of success underneath this system.
An important man’s thought
It was from the thoughts of Don Gilberto Mendoza that the concept of making a marketing campaign to combat the scourge of medication by way of sport was born. Thus was born the KO Medicine World Marketing campaign, which in 1991 turned a tangible actuality with the primary KO Medicine Marketing campaign Kids’s Sports activities Video games within the state of Aragua, Venezuela the place greater than 200 youngsters and adolescents participated in non-boxing disciplines comparable to volleyball, athletics, rubber ball – as we speak baseball 5-a-side – and soccer.
A few years later, additionally in Venezuela, within the third version of its video games, skilled boxing was included, celebrating the primary Latin American Boxing Pageant. The KO Medicine was born.
From then on, numerous younger boxers discovered a platform to indicate their expertise to the world, and the occasion promoted by the WBA was a gathering level for the boxing and sporting household, a giant home that additionally obtained nice boxing personalities comparable to Mike Tyson, Roberto ‘Manos de Piedra’ Durán, Felix Tito Trinidad, Oscar De La Hoya, and Antonio Cervantes ‘Child Pambele’, Bernard Hopkins, Evander Holyfield, Aaron Pryor, Alexis Arguello, Naseem Hamed, Virgil Hill, Don King and baseball Corridor of Famer Luis Aparicio, amongst many others.
This August 23 and 24, on the On line casino Buenos Aires within the Republic of Argentina, a brand new chapter within the historical past of the KO Medicine, the third in a row to be held within the southern nation, can be written.
