Punch Out 2025

The Centennial Boxing Show is an amateur boxing exhibition that takes place at Pasadena City Hall. For the last three years I have been covering it for Pasadena Weekly. I look forward to it every year, even if I don’t remember it’s happening until the week before. The photos in this post are from my evening spent covering the event. I love photographing sports and boxing is quite the challenge. I have started to rely on my photographic spidey sense vs. the spray and pray method. Some of these photos aren’t perfect timing, but they I feel like there is something about them that I like. Not sure if I’ll be shooting the UFC anytime soon, but I would not turn it down given the opportunity. What I most about photographing boxing is that the fighters are so focused on their mission. When looking through my lens I can see the determination in their eyes. This makes me want to give the same amount of focus to the photographs I create at this event. If you’re in LA in 2026 this isn’t an event to miss. Till next year.

Sergio served a twenty year prison sentence and was released three years ago. His cousin kept his car safe for him while he was doing his time. We chatted a bit about prison and how it was adjusting to life outside and then I made his portrait.