Irmo’s Luke Sevilla has won the 126 lb. Novice Bantam Championship at the Savage Fall Festival Boxing Show.
The California transplant is off to a great start in local youth amateur boxing and middle school athletics in the Carolinas and on the East Coast.
Tommy Sevilla moved his family from Menifee, in Riverside County of Southern California, across the United States to Irmo/Columbia.
Thus far, his 12-year-old son Luke Sevilla, is off to a strong start in Boxing, having defeated a tough opponent, Jordan Pineda of Rock Hill, South Carolina, to win the USA Boxing 126 lb. Novice Bantam Division of the Savage Fall Festival Boxing Show at the Savage Boxing Academy in North Charleston.
Luke, not yet fully healed from a Buckle Fracture of his right thumb suffered in a Columbia Knights AAU Football game in Goose Creek three weeks prior, had to overcome his lack of training and preparation for the fight, as well as his injury, mixed with a desire to leave the event quickly thereafter to try and make it in time for his Knight’s football game in Augusta, Georgia. Luke is the starting Quarterback and Safety for the Columbia Knights 12u football team, who have just accepted and received an invitation for a national playoff. However, a scheduling change from the 3rd bout to the 37th bout, would not permit Sevilla to make the football game after all.
Luke Sevilla is one of a handful of 7th graders to start for or get significant playing time on his Irmo Middle School C-Team football squad, which is currently undefeated and beating all of its opponents by a wide margin. They are well on their way to a League Championship and Bowl Game. Next on their schedule is Brooklyn-Cayce and Dutch Fork to close out the regular season. Irmo is the defending High School League (i.e., C-Team) Champions, led by Head Coach, Teon Petree.
Luke Sevilla is a multi-sport athlete who participates in football, baseball, basketball, boxing, and wrestling (9 national event titles; 2nd at California Kid’s State Championships). He is registered to fight next at Mason Prep School in Charleston, South Carolina at Fall Fight Night VI for a Championship Belt.
