In Fort Worth, Mexican-Americans have produced some of the citys best fighters from a once-prolific boxing town. From Rudy Barrientes to Stevie Cruz to Paulie Ayala and under famed trainers such as Joe Barrientes, Paul Reyes and Henry Mendez. They certainly werent the only contributors, but Hispan
Its no different from anybody else, said Rudy Barrientes, the citys first national Golden Gloves champion, in 1968. We didnt have the best of the best, like our neighbors across the tracks. We didnt have that. We had to struggle and crawl and fight and get our teeth knocked out, our nose bloo