Adam Flores Cruz is a retired Mexican

Mexican people

Mexican people refers to all persons from Mexico, a multiethnic country in North America, and/or who identify with the Mexican cultural and/or national identity....

 professional boxer

Boxing

Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...

 in the Heavyweight

Heavyweight

Heavyweight is a division, or weight class, in boxing. Fighters who weigh over 200 pounds are considered heavyweights by the major professional boxing organizations: the International Boxing Federation, the World Boxing Association, the World Boxing Council, and the World Boxing...

 division and actor in the film Snake Eyes

Snake Eyes (film)

Snake Eyes is a conspiracy thriller film directed by Brian De Palma, one featuring his trademark use of long tracking shots and split screens. It starred Nicolas Cage, Gary Sinise and Carla Gugino....

. Flores was a member of the 1996 Mexican Olympic team and was trained by Eduardo Garcia

Eduardo Garcia

Eduardo García is a Mexican trainer in the sport of boxing. García is considered one of the best trainers in the history of Mexican boxing.-Training career:...

 at La Colonia Boxing Club

La colonia youth boxing club

La Colonia Youth Boxing Club is a boxing gym located on 1st street in La Colonia neighborhood in Oxnard, California. Notable Mexican American boxers train at the gym and future boxers are also brought up there.-GYM:...

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Amateur career

Adam played football at Ventura Buena High and Ventura College, he also was a wrestling standout in high school and at Moorpark College. He earned a spot on the 1996 Mexican Olympic

Mexico at the 1996 Summer Olympics

Mexico competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States.- Bronze:* Bernardo Segura — Athletics, Men's 20 km Walk-Archery:In its fifth Olympic archery competition, Mexico entered three competitors...

 Team.

Professional career

In April of 2000, Flores tookout the undefeated Gregory Dial by first round K.O. The bout was held in Salem, Oregon

Salem, Oregon

Salem is the capital of the U.S. state of Oregon, and the county seat of Marion County. It is located in the center of the Willamette Valley alongside the Willamette River, which runs north through the city. The river forms the boundary between Marion and Polk counties, and the city neighborhood...

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Training career

After his fighting career was over, he started up the World Crown Sports Boxing Gym. Were prospects and world champions train.

Boxers Trained

• Sergio Gabriel Martínez
  Sergio Gabriel Martínez
  Sergio Gabriel Martínez is an Argentine professional boxer and the current The Ring middleweight champion....
  
  , a two-time World Champion and the number two pound-for-pound
  Ring Magazine pound for pound
  The Ring Magazine Pound for Pound is the official list of the current pound for pound professional boxing rankings distributed by The Ring.-Top 10 rankings:-See also:* List of current world boxing champions* List of boxing weight classes...
  
   boxer in the world.
• Rogelio Vargas
  Rogelio Vargas
  Rogelio Vargas is an undefeated Mexican American professional boxer in the Super Middleweight division and is the younger brother of two-time world champion boxer Fernando Vargas.-Pro career:...
  
  , undefeated prospect and brother of former World Champion Fernando Vargas
  Fernando Vargas
  Fernando Vargas is a retired Mexican American boxer and two-time world champion, who won a bronze medal as an amateur at the 1995 Pan American Games in Mar del Plata. His nicknames include "Ferocious", "The Aztec Warrior" and "El Feroz"...
  
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• Daniel Sarmiento
  Daniel Sarmiento
  Pablo Daniel Sarmiento is an Argentine professional boxer in the Light Welterweight division and is the former IBO Light Welterweight Champion...
  
  , a former IBO Light Welterweight Champion.
• Lucas Matthysse
  Lucas Matthysse
  Lucas Martin Matthysse is an Argentine professional boxer in the Light Welterweight division and is the current WBO Inter-Continental Light Welterweight champion...
  
  , a top rated Light Welterweight
  Light welterweight
  -Professional boxing:The light welterweight class is a weight division in professional boxing that has a limit of 63.5 kg or 140 pounds...
  
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• Javier Fortuna
  Javier Fortuna
  Javier Fortuna is an undefeated Dominican professional boxer in the Featherweight division and is the current WBC Youth World Featherweight Champion...
  
  , an undefeated Featherweight
  Featherweight
  Featherweight is a weight class division in the sport of boxing. There are similarly named divisions under several Mixed Martial Arts organizations and in Greco-Roman wrestling.-Professional boxing:...
  
   prospect.

Film

Flores was in the film Snake Eyes

Snake Eyes (film)

Snake Eyes is a conspiracy thriller film directed by Brian De Palma, one featuring his trademark use of long tracking shots and split screens. It starred Nicolas Cage, Gary Sinise and Carla Gugino....

 as the boxer José "Pacifico" Ruiz, were he knocks out Stan Shaw

Stan Shaw

Stan Shaw is an American actor.Born in Chicago, Illinois, he is the son of Bertha Shaw and saxophonist Eddie Shaw, and cousin of the late soul singers Sam Cooke and Tyrone Davis Brother of Vaan Shaw...

's character Heavyweight champion Lincoln Tyler.

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