Alexis Ortiz
Fighter, Developer, Educator · Houston, TX
I grew up in the Houston boxing community, training and coaching at my family’s gym. I’ve watched fighters and coaches drown in DMs and group chats. I’ve had sparring sessions fall through and lost evenings of work. I’ve seen shows go to event day with a bout sheet that was only half full.
Boxing Network is the tool I wished existed when I was looking for sparring, scouting gyms in a new city when we've traveled for nationals, or when we were trying to matchmake for an event. I graduated Hamilton College, NY, with a degree in Computer Science and Mathematics and combined my passion for boxing with my technical expertise to create Boxing Network.
Built in the gym.
Boxing Network started after one too many missed fights. A camp ends, a fighter is ready, and the bout falls through because the right opponent never saw the call. Or a gym puts on a show and the room is half-empty because the flyer lived in three group chats and a facebook group where everyone is doing the exact same thing.
We're fighters and coaches who got tired of running the business of boxing on tools built for everything else. Sparring shouldn't take a week of DMs. A bout sheet shouldn't live only on a spreadsheet. Finding a gym in a new city shouldn't require knowing someone who knows someone.
So we built the network we wanted to fight in. One app. Every gym, every fighter, every event, every corner — pulled together, still local, still ours.
Four corners. Four rules.
Built in the gym
Every feature started with a real fight night, a real bout sheet, a real gym we train at. Nothing is theoretical.
Fighters first
Every decision begins with the boxer. If it doesn't make their next fight easier, it doesn't ship.
Local before global
We grow block by block, gym by gym. The scene is local — the tools should be too.
No middlemen
Direct connections between fighters, coaches, gyms, and organizers. No gatekeepers, no agents in between.