Amateur Championship at 147 pounds, and was a runner-up to make the ’04 U.S. “I thank her for that, because I’m not very good at basketball,” Trout says.īy the age of 19, the southpaw had compiled a 163-42-1 amateur record, a 2004 U.S. By the time seventh grade rolled around and Trout wanted to try basketball, she told him if it was going on at the same time as boxing, he’d have to choose one or the other.
cried during Trout’s first fights, she quickly came around. #TBT my beautiful momma and a cute ass baby meĪ photo posted by on at 10:43am PDT Driving mom crazyĪs a 10-year-old already involved in a bevy of sports, all it took was a drive past a Las Cruces, New Mexico, boxing gym to get a young Austin Trout itching to give the sport a try. His mother, M.J., wasn’t thrilled about having to chauffeur her son to his newfound interest on top of baseball, soccer and the rest, but she went along with it.Įven though M.J.
