- Bairoa Gym
Bairoa Gym is a
boxing gym located in the "Bairoa barrio" area ofCaguas, Puerto Rico ."El gimnasio Bairoa", as it is known in Spanish, is a famous boxing gym in
Puerto Rico because of the list of world champions and top contenders who have trained there. World champions who have used this facility include "Alfredo Salsero Escalera", "Hector Macho Camacho" andJulian Solis . Other boxers have includedAlberto Mercado ,Miguel Cotto , Miguel's brotherJose Miguel Cotto andJuan Carazo .The gym was managed since the 1970s by
Cuba n trainerJulian Delgado , untilEvangelista Cotto replaced him during the early 2000s. It has atiger as a logo, probably in allusion to Survivor's hit "Eye of the Tiger", from the movieRocky III .Miguel Cotto became the gym's first "homegrown" world champion when he conquered the
WBO 's world Jr. Welterweight title by knocking outKelson Pinto ofBrazil in six rounds in 2004.On
March 3 ,2005 , former Olympic boxerJoseph Serrano was shot in the head as he was leaving the gym, causing consternation among those present when the incident happened. This was the first violent, non-boxing related incident to happen in the gym; in 1984, a prominent boxer who trained there was murdered outside his apartment at a nearby apartment complex.
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