COMBAT SPORTS
Olayo-Mu帽oz to make her Golden Gloves debut
Raton's Trujillo to defend his Power Slap title vs. Johnson
Las Cruces鈥� Joscelyn Olayo-Mu帽oz, a 16-time USA Boxing national champion, is scheduled to make face Haylee Lemaster of Ashland, Kentucky on Friday in a 106-pound semifinal bout at Golden Gloves National Championships in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Friday鈥檚 session is scheduled to begin at 4 p.m MT and to be streamed at .
Friday鈥檚 bout will be Olayo-Mu帽oz鈥檚 debut in the tournament, having drawn a bye into the semifinals. Lemaster drew a bye as well in a weight division that had only five entries.
Olayo-Mu帽oz qualified for nationals last month via a victory over Malia Paculan at Colorado-New Mexico nationals.
New Mexico鈥檚 three other boxers at nationals 鈥擨brahim 鈥淚b鈥� Maiga (165 pounds), Azariah Perez (121) and Andres Garcia Marquez (198) lost their opening bouts.
POWER SLAP: Raton鈥檚 Robert Trujillo weighed in Thursday at 155 pounds for Friday鈥檚 defense of his Power Slap lightweight title against Hayden Johnson at the Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Trujillo is 5-1 in Power Slap competition. Johnson, with roots in California and North Carolina, earned the title shot in his Power Slap debut with a first-round knockout of Glen Hunter on March 6.
The card will be streamed on Power Slap鈥檚 YouTube channel, scheduled to start at 7 p.m.
For those not familiar with Power Slap, the concept is simple. Two contestants take turns slapping each other with all the force they can muster. At the end of three rounds, unless one fighter has been judged unable to continue at some point, the contest goes to the judges.
In his journey to the lightweight title, Trujillo, who鈥檚 also 5-1 as an MMA fighter, has displayed not only power but a remarkable ability to absorb punishment (with a smile).
