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Big boxing weekend: Jos, Kat, real estate developers fight night
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This a momentous weekend, fraught with potential, for New Mexico boxers Joscelyn Olayo-Muñoz and Katherine Lindenmuth.
Las Cruces’ Olayo-Muñoz is in Colorado, preparing for her first appearance on the world stage as one of the United States’ most accomplished young amateurs. Lindenmuth is in California, ready for a bout that could bring her closer to her ultimate goal as a professional.
Closer to home, though, professionals in the world of real estate and property development will throw down for charity.
NAIOP FIGHT NIGHT: A boxing match between “The Rower” and “The Runner” may not stir the blood quite like one between “The Greatest” and “Smokin’ Joe” or “Mi Vida Loca” and “Kid Dynamite.”
But neither Scott Goodman (The Rower) nor Sal Perdomo (The Runner), Albuquerque real estate developers, intend to pull their punches when they face off at the Marriott Pyramid on Friday.
The black-tie event is being staged for charity, with LosOjosDeLaFamilia.org the prime beneficiary.
Only a handful of tickets, Perdomo said, priced at $275, are still available. For more information, go to nmnaiop.org.
Perdomo, a Texas native, said in a phone interview he’d attended similar events in Austin and told fellow New Mexico NAIOP (Commercial Real Estate Development Association) members about it.
“They’re like, ‘We have to do this here,’” he said. “… Albuquerque’s a big fighting community — big MMA, boxing community, history here.
“They just took it and ran with it.”
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Run with it? Perdomo, who ran track and cross country in high school and college and been a high finisher in various events at the Duke City Marathon (not this year, saving those legs), isn’t planning to be a runner on Friday. His training with Frankie Armijo and Francisco Saavedra at Duke City Underdogs Boxing Gym, he said, has been intense.
Back atcha, said Goodman (in effect), who has trained at Albuquerque’s Jackson-Wink MMA with Alex Exsisto, J-W’s Muay Thai coach.
Goodman noted that Exsisto is also Jon “Bones” Jones’ Muay Thai coach and plans to be in New York when Jones, an Albuquerque resident, defends his UFC heavyweight title against former champion Stipe Miocic at Madison Square Garden on Nov. 16.
“Training with someone who’s training Jon Jones, that’s pretty exciting,” Goodman said.
Goodman, a Chicago native, did his rowing at the University of Oregon. He now heads Albuquerque’s Goodman Realty Group. He and Perdomo, director of acquisitions and development for Titan Development, have known each other for years. Each considers the other a friend.
Friendship, however, will be suspended on Friday.
In a co-main event, unlike Goodman and Perdomo, Genieve Posen and Valery Simpson do bring some combat-sports experience to their bout. Posen, as Genieve Sanchez, starred in basketball at Grants High School and played at New Mexico State.
Several other bouts, scheduled for three two-minute rounds, are scheduled.
Presented By: CNM
Journal Staff Writer Ryan Boetel sits down with Sal Perdomo who is the Director of Acquisitions & Development at Titan Development and Micah Gray who is the Commercial Real Estate Advisor at NAI Sun Vista on this weeks Outlook on Real Estate podcast.
There were major changes recently to home buying, which were brought on when earlier this year the National Association of Realtors and other major real estate brokerages agreed to pay $950 million to settle federal lawsuits that alleged the brokers forced homebuyers to pay inflated commissions during home sales.
In addition to the money settlement, the real estate industry also agreed to policy changes that aim to bring more transparency around how brokers and agents are paid and what services they will provide.
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JOS THE BOSS: Olayo-Muñoz is wrapping up two stints at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs in preparation for the World Youth (U-19) Championships in Pueblo.
The winner of 15 national amateur titles, “Jos the Boss” has never before fought internationally.
The Las Cruces High School senior — she runs track for the Bulldawgs in the spring — is fighting at 48 kilograms (105 pounds). According to information found online, four bouts in that weight class are scheduled for Saturday, followed by semifinals on Monday and the championship bout on Friday.
Pairings have not been announced. The tournament will be streamed on usaboxing.com.
KAT IN CALI: Lindenmuth’s scheduled six-round bout on Saturday against unbeaten Guadalupe “Lupita” Medina (7-0, two KOs) gained a bit more importance after Wednesday’s news that undisputed world minimumweight (105-pound) champion Sineisa Estrada has decided to retire.
An upset victory over Medina could bring Lindenmuth (6-3, three KOs) at least a bit closer to the world title shot she covets.
The bout is part of a card to be staged by Tom Loeffler, Medina’s promoter, in Commerce, California, to be streamed on UFC Fight Pass.
Medina, based on a videoed interview, appears to be supremely confident that it will be she, not Lindenmuth, who’ll have her hand raised on Friday and edge closer to a world title.
We’ll see.
