Ocala’s religion ‘Golden Girl’ Mendez competes in Junior Pan American Games

Whenever she had been 7 years of age, well before going together household to Ocala a couple of years before, trust Mendez planned to come to be a boxer. No, their grandfather informed her.

Carlos Mendez made an effort to set her in virtually any some other sport: baseball, diving, tennis. She never ever quit inquiring. Very 1 day five years later he tossed this lady in a ring with a boy with a few matches under their belt. The idea ended up being he’d punch this lady from time to time, render the girl bleed, and she’d stop. Not much more inquiring.

With the exception that his child defeat the child.

“The one you have started waiting for to-be the winner is actually standing before you, begging one fight, therefore keep turning this lady straight down,” Sandra Mendez informed her partner afterwards. Continue Reading