Top Rank Signs 17-Year Old Julian Montalvo To A Promotional Pact

Press Release:

Boxing’s best-kept secret, a teenage prodigy whose sparring sessions have become the stuff of Las Vegas gym legend, is about to be unleashed. 

Julian “El Natural” Montalvo (3-0, 2 KOs) has inked a long-term promotional contract with Top Rank. The 17-year-old junior lightweight, a Las Vegas native whose family hails from Sinaloa, Mexico, will return this summer following his unanimous decision over Erick Eugenio Tovar Gutierrez last Saturday in Colima, Mexico.                                                     

Montalvo is trained and managed by Armando Flores, who has been working with him since his first day in the gym over a decade ago.

Montalvo went 20-1 as an amateur, but Flores elected to forgo the national amateur system to give his young charge more experience in the gym and learn the professional style. Montalvo sparred at many Las Vegas gyms from his early teen years before finding a home at the Top Rank Gym. And, so, his fistic education came from trading leather with a who’s who of modern luminaries. Montalvo is now ready to graduate to the bright lights.