Despite amassing the majority of an amateur record of 75 bouts with 53 wins and 22 losses in Kansas including a bronze medal in the ’01 Junior Olympics and silver in the ’02 games, the “Simple Man” decided to move to Tecate, Mexico.  About forty miles east of San Diego the small border enclave has given fruit in better opportunities within the sport “in Kansas there wasn’t many opportunities or we had to travel a long way for tournaments and such so I decided to move in with my uncle in Tecate.”

The twenty year old Orozco earned a bronze medal at the ‘08 Mexican Nationals and owns wins over current US ‘08 Olympic team member Javier Molina and Jessie Vargas of the ’08 Mexican squad.

“Those were about my 5th and 6th fights with the Barragan team.  They helped me get well prepared.  Both were great boxers with a lot of movement but we were able to win both bouts with controlled pressure and by fighting intelligently.  I guess I had the upper hand.”

Waking up at dawn to make the long trek from Tecate to the Barragan Gym in National City, Orozco is completely focused at the task at hand on May 22nd, his first fight as a professional “I’m working on maintaining calm.  As far as the fight, I am going to study the first round and then see if I should come out aggressive for the rest or be cautious and fight intelligently.   Either way, I’m comfortable.”

Barragan Jr. adds “we have been training hard.  He has been looking very promising in sparring so if the KO comes, then that would be the icing on the cake.”

The boxer-puncher who admires current WBA welterweight champ Miguel Cotto for his calm and non flashy demeanor inside the ring feels nervous in regards to his first time in the squared circle in the punch for bucks game ‘like everybody else I do feels somewhat nervous (chuckles), but I’m focusing on concentration and motivation.”

With the full support of his family back in Kansas, his uncle in Tecate and the mother of his soon to be born child in Texas, Orozco has many eyes on him and he feels confident that he will make everyone proud “my family believes as well as I do that I have what it takes to make it in this sport.  I love the discipline that you need to become successful.  I don’t run away from it.”

Carlos Barragan Jr., mirrors the sentiment “he is very much disciplined.  We were at a tournament in Mexico and while everybody else was playing video games, he was reading a book, Of Mice and Men, which is why we call him ‘Simple Man’ because that is just what he is, very simple and well mannered.

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