The Brief

PHOENIX - A Valley family is honoring the memory of a promising young boxer killed more than a decade ago. They are now keeping his legacy alive with a new amateur boxing event.

What they're saying:

Alexis Urbina’s family said he was as promising as they come, both as a boxer and as a person. When he was murdered in 2013, it tore their family apart. But more than a decade later, this event is keeping his memory alive.

Boxing is in Sulem Urbina’s blood.

"My older brothers were boxers and then I get into it," said Sulem Urbina, Alexis’s sister.

That included her younger brother Alexis, who ended up on Team USA.

The backstory:

But that bright future was cut short in 2013, when he was murdered at just 17 years old.

"Two people randomly broke in our home and he was beat to

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