And if Eric Morel keeps it up, he just may wind up as a bigger local hero than Brett Favre. That shocked a lot of people. There hasn 't been a boxer in Madison for the longest time. And then I came out of nowhere, and went to the Olympics representing the United States. And I became the first guy who came from Madison to become a world champion.
People look at that.
He comes from the big city, San Juan. One of nine children, Morel began boxing under his father's tutelage at the age of seven. A brother was attending college in Wisconsin, and in 1992, at the age of 17, the up and coming amateur boxer followed, with one goal in mind. I just knew that. It was just a matter of time.