KAILUA-KONA — At first glance, soft-spoken 11-year-old Ariana Ramos might not look like she’d have a puncher’s chance in the ring.
Looks can be deceiving.
“She’s a beast,” Sonny Westbrook, her trainer, said. “Some of the best hands I have seen and she will fight anyone you put in front of her.”
Westbrook has been training fighters out of his gym at Old Kona Airport Park for more than two decades, so that’s high praise for Ramos. But his actions speak even louder than his words.
Westbrook has seen so much promise from his young pupil he decided to have Ramos be the semi-main event at the Kona Boxing Club bouts at Thelma Parker Gym in Waimea on Saturday.