{"id":471460,"date":"2026-02-13T02:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T02:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/471460\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T02:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T02:31:08","slug":"two-young-huntsville-boxers-fight-for-national-gold-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/471460\/","title":{"rendered":"Two young Huntsville boxers fight for national gold | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Two local boxers are hoping to put Huntsville on the map<\/p>\n


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HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – Evander Holyfield and Deontay Wilder are two legendary boxers who were born in Alabama. One Huntsville gym wants to create even more legends in the sport.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This month, Rocket City Boxing will send two young boxers to the USA Boxing National Silver Gloves Championships in Independence, Missouri.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of boxers will go their whole career without ever seeing the national stage,\u201d said Steven Badgey, a trainer at the gym. \u201cThe fact that they\u2019re there at this point is a big deal.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

11-year-old Gabriel Johnson and 14-year-old Miguel Spells will get that opportunity. The competition takes place February 25-28.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is what I\u2019ve been training for my whole life,\u201d Spells. \u201cI\u2019m really excited for it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Both have lofty goals for the competition and their future boxing careers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cNot just to win, but to win in spectacular fashion,\u201d Johnson said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Most of all, they want to help put the Huntsville boxing scene on the national map.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI see it going super, duper far,\u201d Spells said.<\/p>\n

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11-year old Gabriel Johnson (left) and 14-year-old Miguel Spells will compete\u00a0USA Boxing National Silver Gloves Championships.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Two local boxers are hoping to put Huntsville on the map HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – Evander…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[1428,703,49,48,169712,44,82],"class_list":["post-471460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-alabama","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-huntsville","tag-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}