Trainer Paul Reyes passes away

Legendary Fort Worth boxing trainer led Donald Curry and Paulie Ayala to world titles

By Jeff Zimmerman

Beloved, legendary boxing trainer Paul Reyes, out of Fort Worth, Texas, passed away peacefully at 85 last Saturday, just a few days after Christmas, after recent health challenges.

Reyes, a proud Army veteran and a man of faith is best known for training two homegrown fighters to world titles, Donald Curry and Paulie Ayala, in an era when Fort Worth was a boxing hotbed and known as a “fight town” in the 80’s and 90’s.