Hawaii Boxers

Jesus Salud is an American boxer whose ancestry deep roots to the Philippine heritage. Originally, Salud was from Sinait, a place within the Philippines. He won the World Boxing Association Super Bantam Weight title on December 11, 1989 in a boxing fight with Juan Jose Estrada that was in disqualification but in Salud’s favor.

Salud won 62/72 professional fights and knocked out 38 challengers in his career of 17.5 years. During the span of his career, he has gained the junior featherweight titles in the WBA and the North American Boxing Federation. Commonly, a lot of fighters do not last quite long enough within the ring because they either tire up, knocked down, or they just simply give up, but not Salud. Salud has his mind and body intact, even his clarity to think and reason. He does not even want his son to enter the boxing game, where even a lot of boxers who had sons, let their sons enter the fight of boxing. He does not want his son to be hurt because he knows how the game really hurts the body especially the brain. A lot of boxer had already been in a lot distress in thinking after a few years in boxing. Salud does not want his son to experience the pain that he has gone through. To let his son experience the pain of the fight will just let Salud experience even more pain.

On December 1 in Las Vegas, Salud lost in the WBO junior featherweight champion Marco Antonio Barrera. This event has been with Hawaii in the couple of weeks of resting and rejuvenation. Upon the panning of his next move, Salud looked upon the tune up on the fight on the Leeward coast. He even reflected on how he stayed undamaged in the sport that has wrecked the lives of so many boxers. It pains him to see boxers that who were incapacitated of remembering their fights, in which they had been battered and triumphed. With all these in mind, Salud does not want his career veer into a wreck, how can someone have a career when the person holding the career is a wreck? When cannot avoid the punches that has been thrown to him, that is where he will quit, but in the meanwhile, he is looking to an additional year for the game while he is still spreading the art of defense, making him one true boxer. He even commented about how boxers think that being hit is a macho thing, where he thinks otherwise that the game is not a matter of being a macho but being smart. An example of a slugger is where a boxer takes five punches just to deliver one hit, which will have a very short career, maybe because of the damage that has already been inflicted of so many. In contrast, the defensive boxing is where the boxer really dodges the punch that the opponent throws, that is where a boxer truly is.

The gym is the best friend of Salud. In these days, Salud thinks, most of the people today want to see blood. They think that there should be blood. That is not what boxing is, boxing the art of dodging or defense from the attacks being thrown. Although boxing eventually leads to blood, it is not what boxing really intends. Taking a hit to the head will be like as taking a direct punch. Usually, the boxer in his weight division could take paunches of about 20-30 per bout, where the punches you don’t see are the punches that really hurt the most.