Boxeo Triqui en la Ciudad de México

Triqui Boxing in Mexico City

Celestino Ramírez, a member of the Triqui community in Mexico City, came from his native Oaxaca, but the lack of opportunities and studies combined with the need and it was easier to go down the wrong path.


By Rodolfo Rosales S.

Celestino Ramírez, a member of the Triqui community in Mexico City, came from his native Oaxaca, but the lack of opportunities and studies combined with the need and it was easier to go down the wrong path.

So he soon found himself admitted to the Guardianship for Juvenile Offenders and later to the Santa Martha Acatitla Penitentiary and the prisons, where he had to learn to defend himself, thanks to that he connected with boxing, which was his lifeline.

To get to the gym where he trains, one must go through a series of galvanized sheet houses, which form a kind of labyrinth, on one side of Avenida Congreso de la Unión, in front of the Chamber of Deputies and exit to a complex of buildings.

Celestino Ramírez

You enter through number 74, after going up some stairs and walking about 60 meters, you go down other stairs and there, in the parking lot, he set up a ring of three by three meters, with wooden platforms and an advertising canvas that he himself painted , its ropes are made of plastic rope and the roof has a canvas. A small sign stands out proudly on the wall: Boxeo Triqui.”.

That place is Celestino's work center and dream laboratory, where he trains more than d4 40 children and young people from his community, hoping that they will be good people so that their luck is very different from mine, you can and we can do it, with the support of many people.”.

His face shows his passage through street fights, his fights in prison to survive, but the ones that hurt him the most are the scars on his soul, those that cannot be seen, but were marked by going hungry, cold and his long nights in jail.

Celestino Ramírez

His dark skin and small eyes shine when he talks about the Triqui community and the children and youth he trains. I wish them a better future, but before their coach I am their friend; For example, if someone doesn't have tennis shoes, we can get them for them, or like you from CLETO REYES, who have now supported us with gloves and important training equipment; Only then will we grow.”.

“For example, here the neighborhood is rough, he comments, while the children run and jump around him. I want a better future, that they combine sports with studies, we need people prepared to serve their own community, but if a world champion emerges along the way, it would be fabulous for everyone.s”.

Celestino Ramírez narrates that he made his gym with things from the garbage, such as the platforms; gloves and sacks that were thrown away and torn, we just put tape and that's it, but now with gloves, masks, shells, bandages and mouth guards, because the children are going to be motivated.”.

Celestino Ramírez

“Here the environment is harsh, we are in a harsh neighborhood (Candelaria de los Patos), children must learn to put their hands in to defend themselves and what better than boxing, which is a great sport. He adored my community and I want the best for these children, that they be good people in the future, concludes Celestino Ramírez..

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