For the first time in recent Patriot Center history, there will be a female bout added to the Saturday, May 2 card at the George Mason University Patriot Center in Fairfax, VA. The bout features a featherweight prospect making her hometown debut.
Her name is Jennifer "The Bolivian" Salinas (above) and her road back to the Beltway area has taken her to a number of places around the world. Salinas was born in Alexandria, VA to a Bolivian father and an American mother. At age two, Salinas and her family moved to Santa Cruz, Bolivia where she lived until age 15.
The family moved back to the United States and settled in Grand Rapids, MI where Salinas was an active athlete competing in soccer, swimming, dance..and wrestling, where she competed on the Rogers High School wrestling team and more than held her own. Salinas finished fourth in the state at 125 pounds and eighth in the nationals as a sophomore.
Salinas entered the work world after her sophomore year (eventually earning her GED) and eventually took up boxing, winning Golden Glove honors before turning pro in 2004, the same year she had her first child. Salinas compiled a 9-1, three KO record before taking off two years after the birth of her second child.
The 26-year-old Salinas now fights out of Manassas, VA and works as a trainer at the LA Boxing gyms in Chantilly and Reston. Salinas will take on Christina Leadbeater of Philadelphia, PA (2-2) in a four-round bout.
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Salinas is the "hottest" female prospect in the world today... She is living proof that the hottest women in South America come from Bolivia!
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