Steven Pichardo is a former pro boxer who is now a coach. He had 10 wins, 3 losses, and 1 draw in his professional career. He also fought 32 amateur fights.
Now every Monday and Friday he coaches at Cudahy Boxing Gym and he also coaches at Churchill Boxing Gym in Santa Monica from Tuesday through Thursday.
When he would prepare for a professional fight he would have to make a certain weight.
Pichardo said in order to make weight, “I was in a calorie deficit, which means that I was burning more calories than the calories I was eating.”
The reason he decided to retire was because he found purpose in other things in his life and things weren’t looking good for him for his future boxing prospects.
He noted, “Things weren’t looking forward. I plateaued. I was stagnating in my career and I found purpose in other ventures, in other avenues that I was taking.”
Pichardo claims that the hardest part of his training was the comments of the people who would judge him and critiqued his way of fighting, trying to bring him down.
He explained, “people from the outside who’ve never laced up a boxing glove are so quick to write you off. They’re so quick to tell you that you’re not good, that you’re not the person you thought you were, and that outside judgement has to be the hardest part of the career, people’s opinions.”
Pichardo stated that coaching began as a way for him to maintain his own training discipline but it evolved into something more meaningful: Sharing his passion with others.
He remarked, “A lot of people realize that they themselves could never be strong enough to do what you just did. That was my favorite part, to realize that for the most part it was a very very tough sport and not even 1% of the world can do it.”
