Javon “Wanna” Walton’s Euphoric Boxing Dreams

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🗓️ 1 March 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Long before stealing scenes, as Ashtray, in HBO’s hit drama “Euphoria”, Javon Walton was making waves as a young boxing prodigy. And this weekend, he goes back to his roots…. heading to Puerto Rico to make his global professional boxing debut, alongside Jake Paul and featherweight champion Amanda Serrano. So today, ESPN staff writer Marc Raimondi explores the potential of Javon “Wanna” Walton in the ring, and tells us why this fresh-faced 17 year old appears ready to conquer the fight game. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Mark Raimondi, it seems strange, but it sounds like the place to start today's story is with
0:06.8	Steve Harvey?
0:08.6	Yeah, I think so.
0:09.8	In 2017,
0:15.0	Javan Walton was 11 years old and at that time he was kind of like a viral sensation on the internet for his boxing skills.
0:25.0	The way that he was able to hit myths with his dad
0:29.0	drew a lot of attention on social media
0:31.0	and he got invited to the Steve Harvey show.
0:35.0	I am a huge fan of boxing.
0:37.2	I really am.
0:37.7	I love the excitement of the sport.
0:39.6	So when I saw this video of my next guest who's been boxing since he was four years old.
0:47.0	I thought, man, this kid is fast, man.
0:50.0	So I want to meet him.
0:51.0	So here he is.
0:52.0	Please welcome, Javan, Wanna Walton. So here he is. He is.
0:53.0	Please welcome, Javan, Wanna Walton, and his trainer dad, DJ.
0:57.0	So then from the Steve Harvey show where he was kind of billed as a future Floyd Mayweather, he gets seen by a casting agent, the
1:05.3	Hollywood casting director. This casting director named Jennifer Vendetti, she saw
1:09.5	me on Steve Harvey and she was like, hey, have you ever acted before?
1:13.1	I was like, no, it's not even something that crossed my mind.
1:16.8	And they invited Walton and his family out to Los Angeles
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