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Lyndon Patricio Snr wants a couple of moments when requested to calculate what number of nationwide titles his youngsters have received. It isn’t as a result of he hasn’t been paying consideration; he was on the apron for all their large tournaments. With eight youngsters – a number of of whom have received a number of nationwide titles – it’s comprehensible that he wants a pen and paper to maintain observe of their accomplishments.
Shera Mae Patricio, Lyndon’s eldest at 22, is an 11-time nationwide champion with a 3-0 (2 KOs) skilled document, adopted by the 20-year-old Lyndon Patricio Jnr, a 2-0 (1 KO) professional preventing within the bantamweight division. Then there’s Sheelyn Patricio, 19, a nine-time nationwide champion, and Lorenzo Patricio, a 17-year-old with 13 nationwide titles, plus a gold eventually 12 months’s World Underneath-19 Championships. Subsequent is Landon Patricio, 16, with six nationwide titles, then Leighton Patricio, 14, with one other six titles, adopted by the 11-year-old Shania Patricio, who has six nationwide titles of her personal.
The youngest sibling, 9-year-old son Levon Patricio, solely just lately began competing.
The Patricio siblings, probably the most prolific Filipino-American household in newbie boxing for the reason that Donaires, usually practice collectively at their health club, DPC Empire, situated of their grandfather’s warehouse in Pearl Metropolis, Hawaii – a couple of half hour’s drive from their hometown of Waianae. Being surrounded by so many completed boxers can solely push a fighter to realize extra, because the household’s patriarch has noticed.
“They’re definitely competitive; no one wants to lose,” stated the 44-year-old Lyndon Snr. “If you’re the only one who loses, you’ll get teased all year. It’s not just about boxing; even in school, they’re all competitive.
“We’re a competitive family, so I think we all want to be the best,” added Shera Mae, who’s co-trained by her father and Gary Hermosura. “We push each other, but we all compete to be No. 1 and take home the gold. It do be bragging rights, just a little bit.”
The 2 senior Patricio siblings will take their subsequent steps in direction of establishing themselves within the skilled ranks once they combat on the identical card on January 18 on the 2300 Enviornment in Philadelphia. Shera Mae will face her most skilled foe, Josefina Vega, 9-10 (4 KOs), in a four-round junior bantamweight bout, whereas Lyndon Jnr will face Marcus Decamp, 0-2, in a four-round bantamweight combat.
Whereas his youngsters’s success on the nationwide and worldwide degree has made them well-known in newbie boxing circles, all of it started with the top of Lyndon Snr’s personal boxing desires. Born in Talavera, Nueva Ecija, within the Philippines, Lyndon Snr moved to Honolulu on the age of 9. He began boxing at age 11 as a method to defend himself from bullies, and did nicely for himself, profitable six Hawaii state championships and competing at a number of nationwide tournaments.
Lyndon Snr wrapped up his newbie profession in 2000 with the start of Shera Mae, then attended school for a 12 months. He labored a pair of jobs – as a building laborer with the Native 368 union through the day and as a safety guard at evening – to assist his rising household. There have been discussions about turning skilled, however with the start of Lyndon Jnr and his personal reticence to relocate to the American mainland, these plans appeared untenable.
Although Lyndon Snr was now not competing, he was nonetheless within the health club sparring. That’s the place his youngsters first have been uncovered to the game, and it was solely pure that they’d search to emulate what they noticed. Lyndon Snr had them competing in numerous sports activities – soccer, swimming, gymnastics and wrestling – however nonetheless taught Shera Mae to field for self-defense functions, utilizing his arms as punch mitts.
What began as a interest quickly turned an obsession for the household.
“The first time my son and daughter won, they were happy – like, ‘Dad, I can do it,’” remembers Lyndon Snr of the 2015 Ringside World Championships in Missouri, the place Shera Mae and Lorenzo earned gold. It was the defeats taken by two of his different youngsters, Lyndon Jnr and Sheelyn, that almost all impacted him, nevertheless.
“I saw my kids’ tears on their eyes, so I made adjustments,” stated Lyndon Snr. “I had to give up myself as a fighter and begin coaching them.”
Since then, there have been way more wins than losses, conspicuously evident within the health club they symbolize, Westside Hanging in Waianae, Hawaii, which led all of USA Boxing with a complete of 76 match wins in 2024.
For Shera Mae, now with out the headgear, there’s much more to show. The eldest Patricio daughter had achieved her first dream – to make it to Staff USA – in 2018. However she surpassed that purpose and got here inside a win of representing the US on the Olympics final 12 months in Paris. After shedding within the quarterfinals of the primary world qualifier in Italy and dropping one other resolution within the preliminaries of the last-chance qualifier in Thailand, Shera Mae realized it was time to hunt out new challenges.
“It was a bit hard to intake because I was only one win away,” stated Shera Mae, who additionally works as a dental assistant. “It was a good experience, and I enjoyed the journey.
“It’s a big transition from the amateurs to the pros because I have to change my style. I’m a pressure fighter, so I had to incorporate that into the pro style, which is to perfect my punches … and make sure every shot counts and to hit the opponent and not to get hit. Just to be more aware because of the punches, because with no headgear and wearing eight-ounce gloves, it’s a dangerous sport.”
Lyndon Jnr additionally had a giant adjustment to make. Earlier than making his professional debut final September, he moved to Las Vegas to show himself to totally different types of sparring and coaching than what he was accustomed to in Hawaii. The transfer is strictly the one his father was unable to make to advance his profession due to his duties as a dad or mum, and it’s one Lyndon Jnr hopes will make him a better-seasoned skilled.
“It was a scary move to make, but me and my dad came to the conclusion that it would be best for me to take my talents out here to Vegas,” Lyndon Jnr stated. “Over here, the sparring, I get to work with different levels, veterans in the boxing world. There’s a lot of variety over here. Back at home it was just me sparring my brothers every day.”
Bob Kane, who manages each Shera Mae and Lyndon Jnr, says the plan is to have them each combat once more proper after their January 18 bouts, with Shera Mae already penciled in to combat once more on March 1 and Lyndon Jnr scheduled for February 15, additionally in Philadelphia. Afterwards, they are going to be a part of the Staff Fight League squad for which Kane is the top coach – the Philadelphia Smoke – with bouts scheduled to start on the finish of March. Shera Mae excelled on the crew final 12 months, going 5-1 within the single-round competitions, together with wins over Ginny Fuchs and Melissa Oddessa Parker.
Kane says he first turned acquainted with the Patricios after considered one of his boxers misplaced to Shera Mae within the semifinals of the 2022 Nationwide Championships. He says Lyndon Snr later approached him about managing his two eldest, with Lorenzo quickly to hitch them. The plan, Kane says, is for Lorenzo to relocate to his health club, Staff Kaoz, in Philadelphia, in time for the Pennsylvania Golden Gloves, which start in April. With no open class flyweight contenders in state, Lorenzo, who turns 18 on April 6, might be eligible to compete within the Nationwide Golden Gloves from Could 11-18 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, after which he’ll flip skilled in June.
Kane says there’s already important curiosity within the Patricios from promotional shops akin to Extra time Boxing and Most Helpful Promotions.
“Shera will be a world champion in 2-3 years,” Kane stated. “She’s seen every style and has been all over the world fighting. Her dedication and her work ethic is unmatched. I’ve been around a lot of fighters; her in the gym training is different. She lives, eats, sleeps the life of a boxer.
“I think Lyndon is gonna develop great, too. They come from a crazy background. Their amateur experience is like no other, with the whole family.”
With the entire Patricios’ successes, Lyndon Snr is never seen in a photograph with out a finger to his lips, which he says is a reference to his preventing household letting their work do the speaking for them. If the Patricios can replicate that success within the skilled world, it received’t be lengthy till much more persons are speaking about them.
