A Delray Beach boxer refusing to let disability define him is celebrating a major victory and has a new belt to show for it.
Julian Gonzalez, who was born with one leg and missing a few fingers, has been training in the ring for two and a half years with dreams of becoming a professional boxer.
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“All that work, the two and a half years, the weeks leading up to it,” Gonzalez said. “It was phenomenal. Phenomenal.”
WPTV reporter Victor Jorges first met Gonzalez in July when Gonzalez and his gym, The Phoenix Boxing Gym, were raising funds for a new prosthetic leg to help him move faster and train harder.
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