Elvin Ayala
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Ayala with the WBC USNBC middleweight championship belt on July 29, 2011
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| Real name | Elvin Ayala |
| Nickname(s) | The Lycan |
| Weight(s) | Middleweight - 160 lb (73 kg) |
| Height | 5 ft 11 in (180 cm) |
| Reach | 74 in (188 cm) |
| Nationality |
 American
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| Born |
January 15, 1981 Reading, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Stance | Orthodox |
| Boxing record | |
| Total fights | 36 |
| Wins | 28 |
| Wins by KO | 12 |
| Losses | 7 |
| Draws | 1 |
| No contests | 0 |
Elvin Ayala (born January 15, 1981) is an American professional boxer from New Haven, Connecticut. He is a former world-title challenger and reigning World Boxing Council U.S. National Boxing Council (WBC USNBC) middleweight champion.
Ayala is currently ranked No. 16 in the WBC and No. 4 in the North American Boxing Federation (NABF). He made his first defense of the WBC USNBC middleweight championship March 30, 2012 at Foxwoods Resort Casino with an eight-round unanimous-decision win over Philadelphia's Eric Mitchell in the co-feature of ESPN's Friday Night Fights telecast.
Born in Reading, Pennsylvania, but raised in New Haven, Ayala took up boxing as a way to stay off the streets and out of trouble. He credits former light heavyweight world champion Chad Dawson as one of his early influences.
"I really didn’t have any schooling," Ayala said, "and there were drugs everywhere I grew up. When I came to Connecticut, Chad was coming up at the time and becoming a star and making money, and I’m like, 'Wait, you can make money off this?'
"I didn’t want to live a life where I had to look over my shoulder all the time, but I still needed to make money. I didn’t want to live in poverty anymore."
At the age of 22, Ayala made his professional debut on September 19, 2003 with a unanimous decision win over Michael Gutrick in Toms River, New Jersey, a short distance from his hometown of Reading, Pennsylvania.
Within a year, Ayala improved his professional record to 7-0 with one knockout. On November 11, 2004, Ayala earned his eighth professional win by knocking out Chance Leggett, then 11-3, in the seventh round of a scheduled eight-round bout at The Roxy in Boston, Massachusetts. The victory over Leggett began a stretch of three consecutive knockout wins for the New Haven middleweight.
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