Ronald Siler
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Ronald Siler Jr., commonly known as Ron Siler (born April 8, 1980 in Knoxville) is a US-American amateur boxer who has competed for the US at the 2004 Olympics. Ron Siler is now a coach in Cincinnati at the Cincinnati Golden Gloves gym located at 1715 Republic Street Cincinnati, OH 45202.
Siler hails from the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood of Cincinnati, he has nine siblings and as of 2007, six children. He grew up without his mother after she joined the Army when he was an infant and lost contact and at times without his troubled father Ron Sr, too.
Boxing since age 7, stringbean Siler almost quit the sport when he lost his first three bouts. He continued, though, and his hard-punching style won his next 50 fights.
At the age of 14 he was caught selling drugs and became a 10th-grade high school dropout.
At boxing he was successful. Until 2001 he was campaigning as a light flyweight, he won the United States championships in 1998 beating Jose Navarro, 1998 and 1999 he lost five times to his nemesis future world champion Brian Viloria and at the Panam games in the first round to Maikro Romero. He came back to win the National Golden Gloves in 2000, at the Olympic trials however he lost to Nonito Donaire and his brother Glenn Donaire
After Viloiria had turned pro he had his best year in 2001 when won the US championships again and a Bronze medal at the world championships where he lost to Yan Bartelemí At the Goodwill Games he defeated Romanian star Marian Velicu 17-6, in semis and Russian southpaw Sergey Kazakov, 17-9, in the final.
At flyweight he won the National Golden Gloves in 2002, at the World Cup he lost to Somjit Jongjohor.
He repeated the win at the National Golden Gloves in 2003 and won the US championships in 2004.
He qualified for the Olympic Games by ending up in first place at the 1st AIBA American 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Tijuana, Mexico. At the 2004 Athens Olympics he represented the United States as a Flyweight and lost in the second round to Tulashboy Doniyorov (Uzbekistan) 22-45. Results were:
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