Eddie
Gates Hopeful for January Debut After seven months as a licensed professional, Eddie Gates is hopeful that his long awaited debut will happen in the next month. Gates reported that he will likely be fighting on the January 15 Four Corner Productions card in Warren. BoxRec currently shows six bouts scheduled including Gates. No opponent is yet known. Gates, 30, trained and fought as an amateur for the past ten years at gyms mostly in the metro Detroit area. He started under the guidance of the late John Brown at Coleman Young Recreation Center, one of three Detroit rec centers that he fought out of. Moving out of state, Gates continued to box while living for three years in Maryland and Arkansas before returning to Michigan to train at Livonia’s Dynamic Boxing Club and Mickey Goodwin’s River Rouge gym. Most
recently, Gates was one of a handful of boxers displaced when Casa
De Boxeo closed for good earlier this month. He believes he may
have found a new home at the Detroit Jungle Gym. |