LUBBOCK, Texas — “I wasn’t able to keep any food down, and I didn’t sleep at all the night before. I was just going on an empty tank.”
That empty tank won Rio Rancho native Ariana Chavez a national championship.
On Dec. 12, Chavez took home the 2025 USA Boxing National Championship title for the youth 165-pound female division, taking the championship bout in a 4-1 decision over California’s Millian Sanchez…