He saw boxing as his ticket from Oxon Hill, Md., to the world. It’s now brought him to Paris.
PARIS — The boxing ring that Darrell Davis built years ago at the Oxon Hill Staff and Development Center back home in Maryland was less a ring and more a contraption, a flimsy 16-foot square marked off with ropes and pads in the corner of a room. He said he called it The Doghouse “because there was no room to run.”
Harvey faced three boxers that day, all with months of training. He walloped them all in a flurry of punches. When he was finished, Davis had his answer. “I got me a fighter,” he said to himself.Seven years later, Davis is not only a fighter but a featherweight amateur world champion, a boxer with the rare mix of speed and power who is now an Olympian. Wednesday afternoon, Harvey will face his longtime rival, Brazil’s Luiz Oliveira, in his first fight ofin the round of 16 at 57 kg .
The next week, Davis took Harvey to one of the top boxing gyms in the Washington area to spar with a fighter known in the local community. Harvey did well against that boxer, too. High school started, and Harvey had been working out so much, fluid gathered in his knees. He missed his first season of football. He started to wonder if maybe his 5-foot-6 frame wasn’t going to hold up in football.
Harvey could fight with them all, Davis said. The problem was, Harvey didn’t know how to stop fighting. He couldn’t stop being the kid in the street fights, the one with a grudge. The boxers he sparred with started holding him back with their hands or wrapping him in their arms. He hated being wrapped up in the ring.
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