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5'4½" featherweight Stacey "Stay-Lo" Reile was born on
November 30, 1973 in Utica, New York and lived there during her childhood. She
later moved to South Florida and currently resides in Miami Beach. She developed her fitness and won second place at the Miss Fitness South
Florida competition in 1999.
Stacey began training for boxing in the late 1990's after meeting Swedish world champion Lena Åkesson
(formerly Lena Fiore), who invited her to train at her gym. Stacey had
been lifting weights for two years prior to this and thought boxing would be a
perfect fit for her. Angelo Dundee’s head trainer, Luis Lagerman, took
Stacey under his wing and began training her.
Stacey had only two scheduled amateur matches. The first was to
have taken place in the 126-lb division at the Florida State Golden Gloves
tournament in 2000; Stacey won
by a walkover when her opponent did not show up. In her second amateur bout, she defeated Vanessa Ramos.
With only one actual fight as an amateur, Stacey decided to delay
becoming a pro boxer and instead honed her craft in the gym for the next four
years, including sparring with the late Shelby Walker.
Stacey made her pro debut at age 31 on July 24, 2004 at Club Ovation in Boynton
Beach, Florida, weighing in at 133 lbs and winning by a
TKO at 1:07 in the second round over Myriam Bazile (136
lbs) of Miami, Florida. The TKO came after a bombardment of left jabs and
straight rights to Bazile's head caused the referee to wave off the bout. Bazile fell to 0-5 with the loss
(and has not fought since).
 On
March 13, 2005 at Roppongi Velfarre in Tokyo, Japan, Stacey (125 lbs)
won a four-round unanimous decision over Riyo Togo (5'5½,126¾ lbs)
of Tokyo. Stacey controlled most of the action over
the four rounds keeping Togo at bay with an effective jab and good right hands
that took their toll. Togo fell to 3-1 (3 KO's) with her first pro loss.
After this fight, Reile appeared on the Learning Channel's Miami Ink, a
reality show about a Miami Beach tattoo shop Reile decided to get angel
wing tattoos on her hips and became known as "The Fighting Angel".
On
October 1, 2005 at Roppongi Velfarre in Tokyo, Japan, Stacey (126
lbs) won a four-round unanimous (40-36 x 3) decision over MMA fighter/boxer Ariya (124 lbs) of
Japan. Ariya relentlessly pursued Reile but Stacey thwarted the pressure with
rapid combinations and left jabs to the head and body. Ariya fell to 2-3 (0 KO's) as a pro boxer and has not boxed again.
On February 10, 2006 at United Bank Center in Coral Gables, Florida, Stacey (126 lbs)
took just 37 seconds to KO pro debuter Yessenia de Jesus
(123½ lbs) of Ocala, Florida, who has not fought since.
 On April
21, 2006 at Cicero Stadium in Cicero, Illinois, Stacey (123 lbs) won a
four-round majority decision over Nora Reyes (123 lbs) of Chesterton, Indiana who fell to
1-1 (0 KO's). (In 2001, Reyes had won the 125-lb open division of the US
National Golden Gloves competition with a 3-2 victory over
Trisha Hill, but she has not fought as as professional since this close loss
to Reile.)
On June 29, 2006 at the American Airlines Arena in Miami, Florida, Stacey (122 lbs) won
by a
TKO in the third round over the more experienced Lakeysha Williams (133
lbs) of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania who fell to 9-9-3 (1 KO).
Williams was Reile's toughest test to date, as she had been boxing since 2000.
Near the end of the third round Reile hurt Williams with a straight right and a
left hook to the head as Williams was standing in a corner. Williams could only
cover up to defend as Reile landed several more punches before referee Jorge
Alonso waved off the fight just before the bell rang to end the round.
Williams has continued to face top
competitors and had gone the distance against contenders such as Elena Reid, Ada
Velez, Jeri Sitzes and Kelsey Jeffries prior to fighting Reile.
On December 14, 2006 at Gulfstream Park Racing and Casino in Hallandale Beach, Florida,
Stacey (123 lbs) won a
six-round unanimous (59-55,59-55,58-56) decision over 18-year old Delia Hoppe (120½ lbs)
of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Hoppe, who held the WIBA FEDELATINA Super
Bantamweight Title, fell to 4-3-1 (1 KO) in her
first fight outside the Dominican Republic.
On January 23, 2008 at the Deauville Beach Resort in Miami Beach, Florida,
Stacey (123½ lbs) won
a six-round unanimous (60-54,60-54,59-55) decision over Maribel Santana
(123¾ lbs) of La Romana, Dominican Republic who fell to 8-5-1 (3 KO's).
Santana had unsuccessfully challenged for world titles on three occasions prior
to this fight.
Stacey (R) vs Ina Menzer in May 2008
On May 31, 2008 at Burg-Waechter
Castello in Dusseldorf, Germany,
Ina Menzer (5'6", 126 lbs) of
Moenchengladbach, Germany retained her WBA and WIBF
Featherweight titles by stopping Stacey (124 lbs) at 1:39 in the fourth round of a scheduled ten-rounder. WBAN's
regular
correspondent Torben L.
wrote
"Round one was a typical feeling out round. Menzer stayed on the outside,
presumably bearing in mind the deep cut she sustained in her last fight against
Tsagouris. Rounds two and three saw more action, and Menzer got past Reile's
inadequate defences with some telling punches. Reile was caught by a vicious
right hook right on the bell ending round three, which caused her to stagger.
She probably would have gone down, if the referee hadn't held on to her.
 Reile
tried to put more pressure on in round four, but she simply didn't have the
tools to trouble Menzer, while the champion found out that a combination of a
left to the body which made Reile lower her left hand, followed by a right hook
to the head, worked every time. Menzer threw that combination three times within
the last 40 seconds, and the third time it sent the over challenged Reile to the
canvas. She got up before the end of the count, but her corner made the decision
easy for the referee, by indicating they wanted the fight stopped."
Ina Menzer improved her record to 21-0 (9
KO's) with the win.
Reile told WBAN that her eardrum was punctured by a "late hit" from
Menzer at the end of the third round and that this blow affected her equilibrium. Review of
the fight video showed that Menzer started to throw the damaging punch a fraction
of a second before the bell, and it landed a fraction of a second after it.
It was judged to be a legal blow by veteran referee Daniel Van de Wiele of
Holland who officiated the bout.
Reile also said she was prepared to
continue the fight but Mark Vaz (who
waved his arms so that the referee stopped the contest) was a trainer who had
substituted at two weeks' notice for her regular trainer, Jorge Rubio, when the
promoter did not send documentation Rubio needed to obtain an entry visa for
Germany, as described in detail on EastSideBoxing.com by Reile associate Ron
Scarfone. Given Reile's unhappiness with the ending of the fight, Sue Fox
and I reviewed it carefully and our opinion is (a) that the damaging punch at
the end of the third round was legally thrown and (b) that our (Danish)
correspondent's description of the action was fair. Menzer indeed started
this fight slowly and defensively, as she often does while , so the first round
was fairly even. After that, in our opinion, Menzer had the upper hand and had
clearly solved Reile's defense in the third round and had Reile in trouble
before the knockdown TKO in the fourth. Reile holds to the view written by
Ron Scarfone, but we encourage WBAN readers to view the videos and judge it for
themselves.
On March 26, 2009 at the Civic Center in Humble, Texas, Stacey (126½ lbs) TKO'd
previously undefeated
Crystal "Choo Choo" Delgado (128 lbs) of Houston, Texas at 0:23 in
the sixth round of a scheduled six-rounder. Delgado went after Reile
aggressively for the whole fight but could not find a way past Reile's effective
counter-punching. Reile knocked Delgado down in the sixth with a right to the body followed by a
left hook to the head. Delgado rose before the count of ten, but the
referee decided that she could not continue and waved off the fight. (Delgado
subsequently stated that she was hurt by a punch to the liver early in the round.) Reile praised her 18-year-old opponent, saying that Delgado had given her her toughest
fight so far and that not even Ina Menzer had come after her as hard as Delgado
did. "She's going to be a champion some day, she has a great heart", said
Reile, who advanced to 9-1 (4 KO's) with the win while dropping Delgado to 8-1
(1 KO).
On February 27, 2010 at the
Electricians Union Hall, in Miami, Florida, Ada Velez
(121 lbs) of Hollywood, Florida won a six-round unanimous decision over
Stacey. WBAN was told that this fight was the best bout on the card and was
a great fight that rekindled the audience's passion for boxing, especially
women's boxing. Velez improved her record to 17-3-3
(6 KO's) while dropping Reile to 9-2 (4 KO's).
Former world champion and trainer Bonnie Canino
told WBAN, "Velez and her team have great respect for Stacy Reile. She
demonstrated great heart and is a good representative for the sport. Ada
Velez is looking for her next fight to be at 118, where she will dominate
anyone who challenges her."
Stacey Reile is a certified massage therapist whose clients have included Calvin
Klein, Queen Latifah, Russell Simmons and Al Roker. Reile has also done modeling
and was photographed and interviewed for the September 2009 issue of Nine5Four
Magazine.
All of Reile’s pro fights,
as well as her sparring, training, and two
appearances on the reality television show Miami Ink,
can be viewed on YouTube.com. She is currently self-managed and a free agent.
Matchmaking or media inquiries regarding her career should be emailed to her
directly at staylo4real@gmail.com.
Other Stacey Reile links
To check out fight reports, complete up-to-date boxing records, with huge digital photos you can go to
the WBAN Records Member Site
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