They took me to the gravesite.

The young man was talking about he had family in Mexico that kill people or chop people up.

I was very scared. I would sit there in my eyes closed thinking, what am I doing?

What the heck am I doing in here?

It was eerie.

I was just laying on that dirt.

I thought about Lulu.

Like, why did it have to come down to this?

For most of his adult life,

Ramon Sosa was a beloved boxing trainer in Houston.

But a fateful encounter set in motion a chain of events that put a target on his back.

Today, our latest ESPN Daily Essential, the wild story of a murder for hire, secret recordings,

and a boxing coach who literally had a foot in his own grave.

I'm Mina Kimes. It's Tuesday, May 26th. This is stories I've ever seen on ESPN.

Yeah, it's pretty nuts. I'll tell you that. It was crazy learning about it, but it has a very interesting ending.

Tisha Thompson is an investigative reporter for ESPN. She covered the story for E60.

So let's start with the beginning. Well, the story begins with our protagonist, Ramon Sosa, lying in an unmarked grave. Totally normal stuff. But let's back all the way up

to understand how we got there. Who is Ramon Sosa? You know, he is a boxer. He's from Puerto Rico

originally. He had moved to Houston when he was very, very young with his family,

and he'd gone back to the island to be a pro boxer when he was 17. It didn't last for very long.

And he ended up going back to Houston. And he had built a pretty significant reputation as a boxing coach in the Houston area.

Box isn't been in my blood of my life. It's something that I've been in my blood of my life. pretty significant reputation as a boxing coach in the Houston area.

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