{"id":596175,"date":"2026-04-11T03:27:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T03:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/596175\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T03:27:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T03:27:14","slug":"local-boxer-heads-to-golden-gloves-state-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/596175\/","title":{"rendered":"Local boxer heads to Golden Gloves state tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before the sun even comes up, gloves are being laced up at JLD Boxing Academy in San Luis Obispo.<\/p>\n

That is where San Luis Obispo native Isaiah Camat, along with his coach and dad, Christopher Camat, trains.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverything just clicks with him,” Christopher said. “So it\u2019s so it\u2019s so easy for us to just develop fast just because he picks up stuff so easy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Isaiah grew up around the sport, as Christopher competed professionally and was an Olympic boxer, fighting household names like Triple G, but it was another sport that had his attention.<\/p>\n

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Courtesy of Isaiah Camat<\/p>\n

\u201cFootball was kind of like my first love, I started playing when I was like 8-years-old,” Isaiah said. “Played all throughout high school. I was on the FCA All-Star team, second team all-league.”<\/p>\n

He moved to San Diego to pursue football at a junior college, but COVID-19 put a stop to that. Isaiah told KSBY News that after that he was searching for a purpose and took an interest in the Navy.<\/p>\n

\u201cTraining with them at Camp Pendleton for like two months, doing all their PSTs like the workouts with them,” Isaiah said. “I passed all the physical workouts.”<\/p>\n

But some past legal trouble closed that door.<\/p>\n

\u201cDrinking stuff like a DUI, some stuff of when I was\u2026I thought it didn\u2019t even matter but I guess when you\u2019re a minor even,” Isaiah said. <\/p>\n

Which led him back to San Luis Obispo.<\/p>\n

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Valentina Salda\u00f1a \/\/ KSBY<\/p>\n

\u201cIt definitely pushed me as a father because you know, he\u2019s at that time, he was I would say going on depression,” Christopher said. “You know he was going depressed and I said \u2018Hey son, let\u2019s go back to basics.'”<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s exactly what they did when Isaiah moved back, training multiple times a week since November.<\/p>\n

A few weeks ago, he won his first fight with a first-round knockout.<\/p>\n

And this weekend, he\u2019ll take his shot at the Golden Gloves State Tournament in Pasadena.<\/p>\n

\u201cI kind of found my way back to it in my own way, so I think because of that I just want to kind of find my own lane,” Isaiah said. <\/p>\n

All while inspiring others, like his younger brother Chris, sharing his favorite part of watching his brother fight is when he wins. <\/p>\n

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Valentina Salda\u00f1a \/\/ KSBY<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Before the sun even comes up, gloves are being laced up at JLD Boxing Academy in San Luis…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":596176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-596175","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596175","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=596175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}