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Lenny Fresquez is
best known in New Mexico as a boxing promoter, starting with his
first foray into the business in 1994 with Danny Romero Jr.'s
first-round demolition of Facundo Rodriguez at Tingley Coliseum.
"I made a few bucks, like $5,000, $10,000," Fresquez recalls. "I
really fell for the sport then."
Since that time Fresquez figures he has promoted 80-some fight
cards. He guesses he made money "on 15 or 20 of them."
Obviously, that's not the kind of percentage that can keep a man
in the fight business for a little over a decade. And it isn't.
Fresquez keeps doing it because "(boxing) is like a drug, to be
honest with you. It's very addictive. I tried to quit a couple
of times, only to be pulled back in."
But he also keeps doing it because he can afford some losses.
"It's easy to talk the talk, but unless you have resources to
back yourself up, it's very, very difficult. I've been lucky
that I've been able to pull other resources to cover our losses
on some of these fights," Fresquez says.
Those other resources come from Fresquez Inc. and Fresquez
Concessions Inc., which partially includes: · Village Inn
restaurants in Rio Rancho and Los Lunas;· Numerous food-related
businesses at the Albuquerque International Sunport (plus
subleasing sites at the airport) and the San Antonio
International Airport;· Albuquerque's Mac's Steak-In-The-Roughs;
· A concessions partnership at the state fair. (excerpt from
article By Mike Hall -Associate Sports Editor
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