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Elvin Ayala (born January 15, 1981) is an American professional boxer from New Haven, Connecticut. He is a former world-title challenger and reigning World Boxing Council U.S. National Boxing Council (WBC USNBC) middleweight champion. Ayala is currently ranked No. 16 in the WBC and No. 4 in the North American Boxing Federation (NABF). He made his first defense of the WBC USNBC middleweight championship March 30, 2012 at Foxwoods Resort Casino with an eight-round unanimous-decision win over Philadelphia's Eric Mitchell in the co-feature of ESPN's Friday Night Fights telecast.〔http://www.thesweetscience.com/component/content/article/2-press-releases/14068-ayala-pumped-to-fight-camacho-jr〕 == Early life == Born in Reading, Pennsylvania, but raised in New Haven, Ayala took up boxing as a way to stay off the streets and out of trouble. He credits former light heavyweight world champion Chad Dawson as one of his early influences. "I really didn’t have any schooling," Ayala said, "and there were drugs everywhere I grew up. When I came to Connecticut, Chad was coming up at the time and becoming a star and making money, and I’m like, 'Wait, you can make money off this?' "I didn’t want to live a life where I had to look over my shoulder all the time, but I still needed to make money. I didn’t want to live in poverty anymore."〔http://www.boxingnews24.com/2011/10/ayala-yearns-for-latest-opportunity/〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Elvin Ayala」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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