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Mom teaches how to train like a pro
World Champion Jaime Clampitt
Mother. Fighter. Champion.
Professional boxer Jaime Clampitt has spent her life working hard for her many titles. A two time national champion in Canada, and a 4 time world champion, Jaime started her career strong and never looked back. Her first pro fight in Calgary, Canada was the main event. She knocked out her competition in under a minute. Her accolades stem from hard training workouts and a drive to succeed. But before she was fighting in the ring, Jaime had to fight against the odds to prove she had what it takes to play a sport that barely had any women. “When I started at the time they really didn’t have any females boxing. I’m originally from Saskatchewan, Canada so I started in Canada and I was the second female registered in Canada for the Canadian Ameteur Boxing Association,” Jaime said. Her priorities have changed a bit over the years with her family taking up much of her time. But Jaime still remains active by working out at striking beauties, an all female boxing gym. Whether you’re looking to go pro or not, there are plenty of classes to try at the gym. “What’s really great about this gym is they really break it down and really teach you from the ground up. So you’re gonna work on the fundamentals. There’s the conditioning side of it, so all the classes are designed around the fundamentals and the conditioning and training of boxing,” said Clampitt. For a list of classes offered at Striking Beauties, head to their website. http://strikingbeauties.com/
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Published : Monday, 05 Mar 2012, 10:43 AM EST
Michaela Johnson NORTH ATTLEBORO, Mass. (WPRI)
Trying to KO suicide
Dena Paolino-Sarcia, Striking Beauties owner, demonstrates an exercise on Saturday.
Women take to the ring to raise money, hope
NORTH ATTLEBORO – About a dozen women’s fists flew furiously into punching bags at the Striking Beauties boxing facility on Saturday morning, not in anger, but as a fundraiser to benefit the Walk For Hope foundation.
Alyssa Caruso, the founder of the Walk for Hope, which raises money for suicide and depression prevention programs, was among the participants, and she was particularly excited to offer the community a different type of fundraiser.
“It’s something new to me, and I wanted to get it out there and share it with everyone,” Caruso said. “My goal for this is to keep the Walk For Hope fresh in everyone’s mind.”
The pairing of boxing and fundraising worked out well for Caruso, as the event raised between $300 and $400.
The event originally had been planned to be two 20-minute sessions, with 20 participants donating $20 each, but the two sessions merged into an hour-long workout. Gym owner Dena Paolino-Sarcia coached the women as they completed warm-up exercises, demonstrated the basic boxing moves, then shadowboxed with small weights.
“You want your arm parallel to the floor,” Paolino-Sarcia said. “Throw your punches out; go easy, don’t throw your elbows out.”
After the basic moves were taught, the women donned boxing gloves and paired up at one of the several punching bags.
“Ideally, throw your jab as you’re moving forward,” Paolino-Sarcia said. “You guys are doing great!”
Paolino-Sarcia, who had first met Caruso during the Walk For Hope’s summer 5K Walk for Hope, aimed to prevent misconceptions about boxing, which is really a cardiovascular and core workout, concentrating in the center of the body, with the power coming from the hips and abdomen.
“It’s awesome working with people who’ve never done it before,” she said. “It was a blast.” By the end of the session, the women were sweaty, but felt exhilarated by the workout.
“I thought it was really fun,” said Abbey Corey, who is a roommate of Caruso’s younger sister at Bay State College. “I’m ready for another workout now.”
Pattie Gay, of Attleboro, brought her 15-year-old daughter Bridget with her. Both had participated in the Walk For Hope’s event last summer.
“I had a good workout,” Gay said. “I feel great. It was fun, it was different – a good, unique workout.”
BY JUDEE COSENTINO FOR THE SUN CHRONICLE
Sunday, February 26, 2012 11:38 AM EST
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Updated: Tuesday, 24 Jan 2012, 5:53 AM EST
Published : Monday, 23 Jan 2012, 11:55 AM EST
(WPRI) – Many of us are doing a great job sticking to our resolutions but might need a little motivation to kick your workout into high gear.
Dena Paolino-Sarcia, owner of Striking Beauties , along with a trainer, joined The Rhode Show to demonstrate three moves Striking Beauties recommends and incorporates in all of their classes but can also be done at home in repetitions to start getting you in shape for this upcoming year!
At Striking Beauties they want to teach you how to box –you will learn how to be able to do short but intense training. Your workout should mimic a boxing fight which usually is four two minute rounds.
Watch the attached video to learn how to do the demonstrations:
1st 30 seconds – Knee high jogging in place while throwing punches
This is a good warm up for arms, legs and lungs.
2nd 30 seconds – Squats, or Squat jumps if you want more of a challenge. Squats are a fantastic leg workout! They work the bodies largest muscle, the glutes.
And by adding the jump, you gain explosive power.
When squatting, push your butt way out back like you are trying to reach a chair behind you. Your knees should NOT come over your toes and your weight should be off your toes.
If you add the jumps, you would squat then explode into the air and come back down into a squat. Be certain to keep chest up & shoulders back because if you lean forward you
will hurt your back.
3rd 30 second set – Push Ups. Push Ups are one of the best core & upper body exercises. They strengthen the arms (triceps), shoulders and back.
Start by supporting your body off the ground with your arms about shoulder width apart and fingers pointing forward. Then lower your self to the ground, ideally as close as possible without actually touching the ground, then lift again.
If your upper body strength is still developing, try this exercise on your knees.
You can also do them on your knuckles or finger tips to strengthen your hands.
4th and Final 30 second set – Bicycle Crunches. Bicycle crunches have been called THE most complete ab exercise. Ab work, or CORE work, is extremely important in boxing.
Your core connects your entire body. A stronger core allows you to combine the power of all your muscles to exert force as one unit. BOXING is ALL core! Your power comes from your core. A strong core lets you punch harder, run faster and move more explosively.
To do a bicycle crunch start by lying on your back in a crunch / sit up position. Place your feet flat on the mat with your legs about 45 degrees. Place your hands behind your
head and gently hold.
To start raise your shoulders off the floor and then bring your right knee upwards and twist your torso slightly so that your left elbow meets your right knee. Then smoothly twist and switch legs so that as each knee is raised you twist and meet it with the opposite elbow.
This routine will take 2 minutes to complete. Take a minute to rest. Then do it all over again. We suggest repeating it at least 3-5 times.
The key is to explode throughout the 2 minutes, then rest up, only to explode again. This is the intensity of a boxing match. And even if you will never get in the ring to actually spar or compete, this type of conditioning training is responsible for making boxers the most well-conditioned athletes in the world!
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By Susanne Boitano
Story Updated: Aug 29, 2011
Once the realm of brawling titans like Ali and Tyson, boxing is becoming popular with women on both professional and amateur levels, even in the Bay State. Historically, evidence of the “fair sex” and boxing is faint: questionable accounts from the 1700s, novelty acts circa 1800s, then “demo” sport in the 1902 Olympics. The 1950s witnessed a brief televised heyday of women’s boxing courtesy of celebrity haymaker Barbara “Mighty Atom of the Ring” Buttrick, but then was followed by the regrettable “foxy” version of the late 1970s. However, over the last 15 years, interest and support for legitimate women’s boxing is on the rise in international venues and neighborhood gyms. 2012 will see female pugilism debut at the London Olympics. And it’s about time!
To understand what all the fuss and fighting is about, baystateparent headed out to Striking Beauties, a 24-hour, all-female, all-ages boxing gym located in North Attleboro, Massachusetts. Inspired and emboldened by a love of boxing and a desire to offer first-class instruction, attorney and mom, Dena Paolino-Sarcia, opened the new style of gym in 2010 to cater to females exclusively. Her business partner, head coach and Director of Boxing is four-time, world boxing champion, Jamie “The Hurricane” Clampitt, also a mother. With its classic pink and black interior and refined touches, Striking Beauties is where women come out of the corner of their lives and take a swing. But what exactly attracts moms and daughters to the bags, the gloves, the endless amounts of jumping rope? And more importantly, can these ladies keep the “sweet” in the “sweet science?”
I Really Wanted to Punch Something
While she enjoyed sharing the sport with her dad as a child, Mary Morgan of Cumberland, RI, never imagined herself boxing. She’d done a little kickboxing, but came to the point in her life where she “really wanted to punch something.” The solid, pleasant-faced mother got the chance to hit the bags and now feels like a champ. “I was so excited and scared since I’m not in shape. But I got hooked! My goal was just to lose weight, but then it grew to something more. It’s a hobby now. On top of exercise, I watch it on TV and go to fights. What I like is that you don’t have to be perfectly fit to be good at the skills. It gives you the confidence to keep walking in and trying it.”
With three contenders in the family (daughters Marietta and Sophia also don gloves), does it make her a better mother? Morgan is emphatic, “Oh, God, ya! It’s made me healthier and stronger, but it also really helps get the stress out. You leave the gym feeling accomplished, so you can go home and handle something that happened in school or whatever problem the kids might have.” Clearly, boxing scored her a winning combination for parenting.
I Feel More Confident
Is Morgan’s praise for boxing the effects of punch drunkenness? Could all that weaving, shuffling, jabbing and feigning be a cure-all for the mommy blues? We asked Yale Department of Psychiatry lecturer and psychotherapist Binnie Klein, author of Blows to the Head: How Boxing Changed My Mind: “With boxing, I tend to find women are more interested in experiencing their personal best, not necessarily measuring who is the thinnest or who has the best legs at the gym, but can you hang in there for three-minute rounds? That will make you feel pretty high and good about yourself. In my research with professional and amateur women’s boxing, it’s nothing less than transformational. They begin to say things like, ‘I feel more confident’ and ‘I feel more powerful.’ Often, it’s something they can’t always put into words, but they know it; there’s a difference between before boxing – and after boxing.”
Those sentiments certainly echoed with Paolino-Sarcia. After “not getting the time of day” from pro trainers, the elegant and athletic Striking Beauties’ boss decided to create a more supportive and more community-oriented training and sparring gym just for women. “To me, if you haven’t gotten in the ring and sparred, you just don’t have that real understanding; that’s why we get the best, like Jamie.” The results speak for themselves in scores of comments she receives, in person or via email, from satisfied customers, such as “greatest workout ever” and “improved my self-esteem.” Says Paolino-Sarcia, “The most common remark is, ‘It’s changed my life!’ The women feel better mentally and physically; it’s a reoccurring theme.” While not every gym houses a medal winner, results like these are typical for women’s classes across the country. Kickboxing doesn’t quite cut it anymore. Women want more from their sport.
I’m Glad She Feels She can Stick up for Herself
But what of the young generation of strikers? We return to the battling Morgans and asked Mary’s daughter, 12-year-old Marietta Morgan, who started a year ago after her mom signed her up, what she gets out of the sport. The most difficult thing, she says, is the warm-up exercises, but Marietta is already wholeheartedly recommending boxing class to her friends. “I wasn’t sure what it would be like, but now I can do a lot more stuff and things are easier for me. I feel better about myself because I feel stronger; I’m more energized, more fit.” The younger Morgan, whose career ambitions range from pro boxer to fashion designer, takes this new found confidence to the real world, i.e. the school yard. “When I see my friends getting picked on, I now know how to defend other people. Trouble isn’t an issue with me.” Her favorite combination? Jab, cross hook, uppercut.
In her corner, Marietta’s mom comments with pride in her voice: “I’m glad she feels she can stick up for herself and her friends if she had to. She would never… but I’m glad she feels that way and it’s because of boxing, whenever she walks out of there, she feels good.”
A boxer’s workout, with its vigorous emphasis on speed, strength, stamina, coordination and unwavering focus seems to beat down the internalized culturized perception of feminine helplessness prevalent today. Perhaps Hello Kitty had better learn to keep her hands up or risk taking one in the whiskers. Self-defense chops not withstanding, releasing aggression is a powerful catharsis, and doing it in a safe, sanctioned environment like the boxing ring is one of the best ways to show women (young and old) how to rise to a challenge, again and again.
From her weekly music and interview radio show on WPKN, Klein often deals with the subject of gender ID. “Males are encouraged to be more physical: ‘Go beat that guy up!’ They deal with aggression at a much earlier age. When given the support and skills, women can express their frustrations and feel their power as well. And they don’t always have to be so careful. There are a lot of young women in this world who are playing it safe, they’re not going to make any mistakes, they’re not going to blow it. Boxing teaches them it’s OK, that aggression and competition are linked. We’re not going to die from it. Having a place for that for young women is so valuable.”
I Love Training Women
Finally, baystateparent checked in with Jamie “The Hurricane” Clampitt, whose powder blue satin champion’s robe hangs proudly by the doors at Striking Beauties. Lovely, tough and deeply dedicated to teaching women to be the best fighters they can be, Clampitt credits training with making her a better fighter and mother. She says, “You have to be mentally strong and mentally tough. Being a mother isn’t always easy. There is a lot of uncertainty, lots of nerves, and just having that time at a gym, where you know you can come in and hit the bag and feel good about yourself accomplishing something – that’s important.”
Clampitt, who isn’t ruling out a comeback, has confidence in this new day in women’s boxing. “I love training women because they work really hard. In this sport, they have to prove something not only to themselves, but to everybody. Most girls are boxing in a male-dominated gym. I think any women who is in the gym has high standards for herself and a great work ethic or they don’t last.”
Sugar and spice and everything nice aside, boxing seems to be gaining momentum as a sweet addition to women’s lives.
Susanne Boitano is a mother and freelance writer who will do most anything to get the story, including taking a boxing class or two. She lives in Newton, Massachusetts with her family.
© 2011 Bay State Parent Magazine, a Holden Landmark Corporation publication
“You have a puncher’s chance all the time,” the coach calls from behind the rope. “Don’t stop punching.”
Amanda Pavone hardly needs the encouragement. She boxes with a tightly wound fury, cornering her challenger on the ropes and between her arms.
It is June 11 and Pavone, a 5-foot-1-inch, 25-year-old amateur boxer, is training at Striking Beauties gym in North Attleboro, just over the Rhode Island border.
It’s the last leg of her training for the women’s national championship, a competition will help shape the US team for the first ever Olympics to feature women’s boxing.
But Pavone, even after winning a New England championship in February, still isn’t sure she’ll be gunning for the Olympic team. Not at the moment, at least. The issue is weight class; in the 2012 Olympics there will only be three: 112, 132, and 165. Pavone usually fights at 119.
She has thought hard about trying to qualify at the other weights, and has come to some difficult conclusions. 112: “I don’t know if it’s physically possible.” 132: “I would be nowhere as good, these girls really know how to drop weight.” 165: “Crushed. Killed.”
Still, she’ll be fighting for a national championship, if nothing else.
Pavone arrives early on Saturday morning, unpacks her gear, ices her left arm, and stretches. She jumps rope, shadow boxes, stretches again, practices with pads, and spars. After two hours of practice, she runs for 45 minutes.
Pavone, a graduate of Johnson & Wales, is a chef; she works at Boston’s Daily Catch. Her job makes it hard to eat right. “I’m around food all the time,” she says, “it’s hard not just to eat cake.”
Now, Pavone has to concentrate on dropping to her proper weight class. Last week, she says, the scale stopped at 128, leaving her with two weeks to lose 10 pounds: “I have to lose muscle, it’s awful.” Fat is easy to gain, easy to lose she says. “It doesn’t feel good to lose muscle, because you’re strong. You can feel yourself getting weaker.”
She has only been boxing for two years. Her coach, four-time world champion Jaime Clampitt, says that amazes most people who see her. But Pavone, apparently, was amazing from the start.
She says that she liked watching boxing when she was younger, and looked into trying it, but classes were expensive. After high school sports, she never even set foot in a gym. One night after work, she went to a bar with a friend. She had heard about a guy named Danny Kelly who wasn’t exactly a trainer, but got people started boxing.
“I just begged him to let me punch mitts,” she says.
Kelly, who owns Whitey’s Pub in South Boston, says Pavone insisted that he try her out: “I said, ‘not now, not now,’ but she wore me down.” So he let her suit up.
“I couldn’t believe her enthusiasm, her power, her desperation to fight,” he says. “In one jab she had unbelievable power, her right hand was an explosion of power.
“I told her it’s not a one-way street, it’s not just hitting—you’ll be getting hit, it’s traumatic. And she said ‘Don’t worry about me, don’t worry about me, it’ll only make me a better boxer.’ She was right.”
Kelly set her up training. Pavone started going to the gym and never stopped.
When she fought at the New England Golden Gloves, no one had heard of her, and she beat a woman who was a foot taller. But she was still raw. “She won not from skill,” Kelly says, “but from her will power.”
That isn’t going to work at nationals. And Pavone knows it.
“I’m a brawler, a puncher,” she says, “but I got to be a boxer, and that’s different. It’s more technical. I would give it my all, rip their heads off. But that’s not boxing. Boxing is all in your head, it’s thinking.”
A week later, at the US Championships, Pavone boxes smart, winning three bouts to get to the final. She winds up with the silver, tying her opponent on points (clean hits) before losing in the tiebreaker count (she threw fewer punches overall).
A month later, her Olympic dreams, which once seemed destined for deferral, are back.
“I plan to try to make 112 and fight in the PALs [Police Athletic League] in October,” says Pavone, whose record stands at 14-4.
“Last chance,” she says, “to make the Olympic trials.”
By Maggie Lange, July 13, 2011. The Providence Phoenix.
Copyright © 2011 The Phoenix Media/Communications Group
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Friday, May 20, 2011
Maggie Lange, GoLocalProv Contributor
At Striking Beauties, a gym for women on the East Side of Providence, the exercise room is saturated in pink. The paint on the walls is a blazing hot pink and the exercise-ropes could only be described as bubblegum. Amidst this sea of coral, it might seem out of place that the instructor is telling her class to channel Mike Tyson who, of all the people in the US, might have the fewest feminine graces.
“Use your imagination, pretend like someone is in front of you,” the instructor Kali Reis, a pro boxer, calls at the women in her Monday afternoon boxing class, who are squatting low and throwing punches. Reis walks through the intensely concentrated crowd, giving each of the six individual tips. “Play pretend, really imagine that someone is there.”
All women, plus boxing
Striking Beauties, which hosted the first ever All-Female Fight in New England on April 2nd, first opened in 2009 in North Attleboro as an all-women gym with a focus on boxing. The East Side branch, on Angell Street, is the second location in a larger plan to franchise. At the moment they are relocating to Ives Street; the ceilings on Angell Street are almost too low to jump rope, and they have little room for free weights, treadmills, and larger exercise machines.
Dena Paolino, the owner and founder of Striking Beauties, has a friendly nature that puts a person at ease in a room filled with punching, kicking, and fighting trainees. She says that she always boxed and kick-boxed for fitness. “It was the only thing that kept my attention and kept me in shape,” she said. Paolino founded Striking Beauties when she saw that there were no all-female gyms in North Attleboro, and only two all-female boxing gyms in the US.
Paolino is a mother of three and a criminal lawyer with her own practice. But with the gym and three children, she only selects a few cases so that she has time for both her family and her business. She does use her law degree to help out women she meets through Striking Beauties; she represents a woman who was in the 2010 Oscar-winning boxing film, The Fighter.
Turning wallflowers into punch-em-out fighters
She says that one of the perks is seeing the transformations from wallflowers to punch-em-out fighters. “So many women come through the door out of shape, overweight, or quiet,” she says, “One girl didn’t speak for three months and I saw her really come out of her shell. There is something about boxing that is so empowering. All girls in a man’s sport.”
This special quality of boxing has caught the eye of some reality TV creators. Two production companies, one in New York and one in Colorado are interested in optioning the boxing gym for a documentary and a reality show. The groups are in talks with some national networks, like TLC and Oprah’s network OWN.
When the women in the class get out the bright pink boxing gloves, Paolino addresses the color choice. “I didn’t used to be a pink person,” she says, “but I loved the combination of pink and boxing.” It’s like leather and lace, she says—something tough and something feminine together.
The design of Striking Beauties and its attitude is not frilly or frivolously pink; it’s hot pink, tough pink. The gym has an industrial, retro-feel that gives the look an edge. Like its logo of a pin-up girl putting on some boxing gloves, the attitude cries out, in Paolino’s words: “You can be as graceful and feminine as you want and as tough as you want.”
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On Saturday April 2, 2011, Striking Beauties, The boxing gym for women, held the first all female fight event in New England. The USA Boxing sanctioned event featured 8 bouts between women from all over New England, and as far as Pennsylvania. A Night of Knockouts included several Olympic hopefuls for 2012 and 2016! All fighters put forth a tremendous effort, and the night was a success with over 300 people in attendance.
1. Mydia Alonso (88 wt) vs. Lianivette Cotto (90 wt)
2. Marcia Agripino (125 wt) vs. Meg Beatty (126 wt)
3. Quianna Nesmith vs. Dianna Richards-Tobey(198 wt)
4. Roberta Pappas (125 wt) vs. Nephateria Miller (119 wt)
5. Destiny Cherino (152 wt) vs. Joy Pennington (152)
6. Magen Knell (132 wt) vs. Amber Bryant (126 wt)
7. Julie Macobella (125 wt) vs. Shelito Vincent (132 wt)
8. Amanda Pavone (125 wt) vs. Melanie Costa (125 wt)
1) . Mydia Alonso (88 wt) vs. Lianivette Cotto (90 wt)
Mydia Alonso, boxing out Irish Boxing Club, Pennsylvania, trained by Gene Reed won a 3 round decision over Lianvette Coto, boxing out of Champions of Life, Meriden, CT, trained by JOhnny Callas.
Lianivette started boxing in 2009 after being bullied by girls at school and it has “inspired her life”! “Lianivette “has been able to meet new people and share new happiness”. She has competed in 4 bouts “and hopes to grow more in skills and have more bouts”.
Mydia has been boxing since she was 9 years old. Today, Mydia is 11 years old and in the 6th grade Her short-term goal is the 2014 AIBA World Youth Olympic Games but her dream is to make the 2016 U.S.A. Olympic Boxing Team.
2) Marcia Agripino (125 wt) vs. Meg Beatty (126 wt)
Marcia Agripino, boxing out Whaling City Boxing, New London, CT, trained by Jaime Hayes & Kent Ward, of won a three round decision over Meg Beatty, boxing out of Boston Boxing, Brighton, MA, trained by Ed LaVache.
. Their fight was awarded “Fight of the Night” By Dena Paolino, President of Striking Beauties.
Marcia started boxing 6 years ago “just to see if I could do it….[then] fell in love!”
A 2x Golden Glove finalist and 2010 PAL finalist, Marcia will be competing in the Women’s Nationals in Florida this summer. A 29 year old OR technician, Marcia has tenacity, fortitude
and one hell of a chin!
24 year old Meg grew up in Belmont, MA and has been fighting for 2 years.
She began boxing after taking a women’s boxing class at the gym in order to stay in shape and try something new, and quickly fell in love with the sport. She has fought in several sanctioned fights and multiple exhibition matches and is excited to participate in New England’s first all female fight night.
3) Quianna Nesmith vs. Dianna Richards-Tobey(198 wt)
Quianna Nesmith, boxing out of Champions of Life, Meriden, CT, trained by Johnny Callas, won a three round decision over Dianna Richards-Tobey, boxing out of Gomes Gym, Middleboro MA. traiend by Dave Gomes
Quianna is a 14 year old 8th grader from Connecticut.
Dianna is a high school freshman, &participates in Track and Field and Basketball. Dianna started boxing 6 months ago and “Is ready for [her] first fight!”.
4) Roberta Pappas (125 wt) vs. Nephateria Miller (119 wt)
Roberta Pappas, boxing out of Shoe City Boxing, Haverhill, MA, trained by Kenny Stevenson, won a three round decision over Nephateria Miller, boxing out of Ring One, New Haven, CT, trained by Brian Clark.
Roberta started boxing 10 years ago. In 2005 Roberta took a 5 year break from boxing, making a strong return last year, adding several wins to her record. Roberta is 21 years old and when she’s not boxing, Roberta spends time with her baby girl, 2 yr old Aleecia.
At 18 years old, Nephateria is the 2010 PAL National Champion (119 lbs) and ranked # 8 by USA Boxing.
5) Destiny Cherino (152 wt) vs. Joy Pennington (152)
Destiny Cherino, boxing out of Striking Beauties, North Attleboro, MA, trained by Jaime and Ryan Hayes, won a three round decision over Joy Pennington, boxing out of Boston Boxing, Brighton, MA, trained by Ed LaVache. . Destiny Cherino was awarded Fighter of the Night for this amazing bout!
Destiny is 20 yrs. old and currently studies Kinesiology at the University of RI.
She started boxing when she was 12 and has had 9 fights, winning the 2009 New England Golden Gloves tournament.
Joy has a 4-2 record. Since she started competing 2 years ago, Joy has won the 2010 Lowell Golden Gloves, 2010 Rocky Marciano Tournament and the 2011 Lowell Golden Gloves.
Originally from Pittsburgh, PA Joy is 34 years old and resides in Boston, MA where she is a full time lawyer and private investigator.
6) Magen Knell (132 wt) vs. Amber Bryant (126 wt)
Magen Knell, boxing out of Striking Beauties, North Attleboro, MA, trained by Jaime Clampitt and Zach Reay, made her debut with a win over Amer Bryant, boxing out of Gomes Gym, Middleboro, MA, trained by Dave Gomes, by a third round (1:06) TKO in a scheduled 3 round bout .
Magen joined Striking Beauties last year to get into shape. Little did she know she would end up boxing competitively! Magen is ready to step into the ring and make her debut fight!
A 17 year old high school junior, Amber runs cross-country winter and spring track, takes AP classes and speaks French.
7) . Julie Macobella (125 wt) vs. Shelito Vincent (132 wt)
Julie Macobella, boxing out of Nonantum Boxing, Newton, MA, trained by Marc Gargaro, won a three round decision over Shelito Vincent, boxing out of Battleground, East Greenwich, RI, trained by Jaime Clampitt & Kurt Reader.
A 33yrs. old Sr. Product Manager at OpenPages, Julie started boxing competitively just last year and became the 2011 Lowell Golden Glove champion as well as the New England Novice Golden Glove Champ (125lb). She proudly boasts a 3-0 record, and her trainer proudly calls her “one of the hardest workers in the gym”.
Shelly has been boxing for over 10 years. With an Amateur record of 8-3, she was the
2000 Bud Belt champion (132) and the 2001 Western NE Golden Gloves champion (125 Novice). Shelly is 31 years old and resides in New London, CT.
8 ) Amanda Pavone (125 wt) vs. Melanie Costa (125 wt)
Amanda Pavone, boxing out Cyr Farrell Boxing Gym, Quincy, MA, trained by Jimmy Farrell,
won a 4 round decision over Melanie Costa, boxing out of Cruz Boxing Academy, Taunton, MA, trained by Bime Cruz, in an exciting rematch!
Amanda started boxing in July, 2009. In the mere year and 9 months that she’s been boxing competitively, has amassed quite the collection of championship wins. At 25 years old, Amanda has an impressive 10-1 record. Amanda’s only loss was to Melanie Costa, and she reclaimed victory in an exciting bout!
Melanie has been boxing for 6 years. Her record is 17-9 and she also boats and impressive list of accomplishments, including several championships. She is 17 years old and a senior at Norton High School.
Striking Beauties would like to thank our sponsors and our supporters, the very people who made this event such a success! We had a great time, and cannot wait for the next event!
Picked up by WBAN! View it on their site here: http://www.womenboxing.com/NEWS2011/news040911amateurs2.htm
