By MC2 Elliott Fabrizio
Full episodes of The Pentagon Channel’s 2011 Armed Forces Boxing Championship are available on demand and for download on TPC’s Armed Forces Boxing Page.
The Pentagon Channel captured all the action from this year’s tournament down at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. The video above is a profile package on the Army‘s Charles Blackwell who fought in the 201lb. weight class.
Blackwell is an Army trucker driver from Tuscon, Ariz. with 4 years of boxing experience.
“Boxing helps me be a better Soldier,” said Spencer. “Everyone in the Army values loyalty and selfless service and they’re all personified in boxing.”
Profile packages and soundbites like this run prior to each fight to introduce the competitors. To see Blackwell and other military boxers fight it out for the gold, make sure to check out our series and subscribe to the Armed Forces Boxing podcast.