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1. What is boxing?
2. Where is Carlos de León from?
3. Name two boxers that did charity work.
4. What was the name of the movie that was shown in the trailer.
5. What did the trailer focus on?
References:
3. http://www.miastjohnfoundation.org/
http://www.biography.com/people/oscar-de-la-hoya-9542428#outside-the-ring
1. http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/movies/el-boxeo-documentary-traces-latino-boxing-history-article-1.1818559
2. http://www.nps.gov/latino/latinothemestudy/sports.htm
Oscar De La Hoya, known as the most famous Mexican American boxer uses his fame to help support a number of charities such as youth boxing centers and other nonprofit charities.
Mia St. John created the non-profit foundation "El Saber Es Poder" to aid Latino schools in the U.S. St. John, accompanied by her mother Maria Rosales, visit schools to stress the importance of family, education, self-empowerment, and voting. (3)
La Colonia neighborhood in the city of Oxnard, California, is notorious for its crime and street gangs, but it is also known for producing some of the toughest Latino prizefighters in the sport of boxing. In 1978, the Community Service Organization chapter led a city-wide effort to form La Colonia Youth Boxing Club to help steer youth away from gang life and towards sports (Alamillo 2)
"Quickly, promoters recognized that boxing, as Alex Ramos says in 'El Boxeo,' had become 'a flag thing,' with people from Mexico, Puerto Rico, Panama, and the rest of the Caribbean identifying with their countrymen who, like them, were fighting their way our of poverty." (Dominguez 1)
From Puerto Rico
He was the second ever cruiserweight champion (200 lbs)
First person to win the championship twice, then kept breaking his record by winning twice more
The sport or practice of fighting with the fists, especially with padded gloves in a roped square ring according to prescribed rules.
It's origin as a sport is dated back to when the ancient greeks accepted it as an olympic game back in 688 B.C.