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Sports Spectrum Podcast

Antonio Vargas - Professional boxer on his bold faith in Jesus

Sports Spectrum Podcast

Sports Spectrum

Sports

5661 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

On today's podcast, we hear from interim WBA bantamweight champion Antonio Vargas about his Jesus story, boxing as a platform to worship God and leading his parents to salvation in Christ.


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Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the Sports Spectrum podcast.

0:04.6

Matt Forte at the 15 to the 20.

0:06.3

Splits defenders crossing midfield, a first down to run, a 42-yard run.

0:11.1

Where Sports and Faith Connect.

0:13.1

Forte, diving catch, touchdown!

0:17.1

Forte, who gets the call, he'll slice his way in for the touchdown.

0:21.6

And now here's your host, former NFL Pro Bowl running back Matt Forte.

0:26.6

What's up everybody? This is Sports Spectrum here. Matt Forte with Jason Romano on.

0:34.6

And Jason, today, man, we have professional boxer Antonio Vargas on here. Only, I mean,

0:41.3

one goal, that's so much to talk about. Won a gold medal 2015, competed in 2016 Summer

0:47.3

Olympics. First pro fight was in February 2017, but also his current record 19 and 1 defeated

0:53.7

Winston Guerrero on December 13, 2024 last year to capture the interim WBA Bantam Wake title.

1:00.9

But the best thing about him in his caption on Instagram, which a lot of people, you know, like Instagram, the social media days, Jesus Christ is king.

1:11.0

And on his boxing shorts, too, Psalm 18.

1:13.3

I like that he's got Psalm 8 scripture on there too.

1:15.9

That's big.

1:16.4

But Antonio, you raised in Orlando, Florida.

1:22.5

Why boxing?

1:23.3

So boxing is a, we know it's a violent sport.

1:25.6

It's just like football is violent, but boxing is different.

1:28.6

A lot of people have said, you know, you play football or you play sports, but you don't play boxing.

1:34.3

So why does you choose boxing or fighting?

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