photographed by Wojtek Jakubiec
"Un Guerrero" is a social documentary on the boxing scene nowadays in Mexico.
Coach Armando Cervantes: " I train them not only to confront a rival in a ring, but also to confront life itself and its harsh reality outside the ring"
“To understand boxing one must understand its roots. From its beginnings, the sport has resonated with urban ethnicity, drawing its recruits from the tenements, the ghettos, the projects, the barrios, places that offered little presence and even less of a future. Many a troubled and troublesome youngster has embraced the sweet science as a way out, a social staircase out of the mean street that formed his limited world, fighting his way out, bloody hand-over-bloody hand, up the ladder of acceptance the only way he knows : with his fists.”
Bert Randolph Sugar
