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Chaz Carello - Grade 7 Mississauga

Rothwell-Osnabruck High School

Participating Sports: Basketball, curling, Soccer,
Football, Baseball
Favourite Sport: Soccer
Favourite Subject: Math
I look up to this sports personality:
David Beckham
Sport achievements:
Soccer MVP 2014-2015 & 2015-2016

Brock’s

Blog Photo@mettenielsenphotography

By Jim Riddell and am looking forward to resuming
the comeback in the New Year. I
n November 19th at the Hershey signed with a new California based
By Brock McBride OCentre in Mississauga Tony company, Liveco Entertainment Inc.
Luis returned to the ring for the first They’ve made me a great offer and
ovember started with us packing up our apartment. My coach time in nine months, pounding out a have outlined a good vision plan for
Nand I hadn’t been seeing eye-to-eye for awhile and it came to a unanimous decision over Christian me to get back to the top.”
point where I spoke to management and asked for my release. It isn’t Urezquieta of Mexico. Urezquieta is
like North American Pro Hockey where you can get traded. Once you a tough determined fighter who had This fight was Tony’s first ever
won his previous ten fights and had in Ontario in his twenty-five
are released from a team you are free to go wherever you want. After
not lost in over six years. Tony won professional bouts. It’s also the
a few days in limbo my agent called and said that another team in the
six of the eight rounds on two of the first time he has fought in Canada
league was interested. After some negotiations I signed a two year
judges’ scorecards and was given five since defeating Maurycy Gojko in
contract with Dornbirn Bulldogs. It was nice to be able to get a two rounds by the third judge. Gatineau QC, back in May of 2013.
year deal to provide some stability for our family. After 4 years in Since then Tony has been fighting
“I know I’ve been sharper” Tony
Villach my wife Melissa, Maely, and I jumped on the train and were on the road, winning impressively in
said, “But I had nine months of rust
excited for a new experience. Dornbirn is a small city on the Swiss places like Iowa, Connecticut, and
to shake off and the last few months
Austrian border and is an area of Europe we have yet to visit. of stress dealing with my former several locations across New York
State. He also had a very close and
We settled in quickly and the players and team staff were very promoter really took a toll on me. And controversial loss to Derry Matthews
I had a tough opponent in front of me.
welcoming. Melissa’s parents were able to come visit in the first week for the World Title in Matthews’s
He was on a ten fight winning streak
that we arrived so I drove to Zurich to pick them up at the airport. hometown of Liverpool, England.
and was very determined to make it
They toured a few cities in Switzerland while I was on a road trip with Area fight fans may get the chance
eleven. I was more determined. It
the team. If you ever visit Switzerland make sure to be prepared to didn’t look pretty but I wasn’t going to see some future Tony Luis fights
spend some money. Everything is expensive. A meal at MacDonald’s to be denied. I had hurt my back in in Canada, as the possibility of some
for 3 people cost them 58 Swiss Francs. That’s about 75 Canadian training and it got triggered during “closer to home” fights are being
discussed. If the bus loads of fans
Dollars. Maybe they make their hamburgers with filet mignon ...I the fight, but I’m a pro and I made the that travelled to Montreal for some
don’t know? adjustments.” of Tony’s early pro fights are any

I want to open up a Swiss bank account ...just to say I have a Swiss When asked about the future, Tony indication, a properly promoted Tony
replied “I am going to rest for the Luis fight could fill the Ed Lumley
Bank Account...like you hear about in the movies!
next week or two to heal the back arena.