Team Frankie Boxing earns three belts at Sugar Bert tournament

Team Frankie Boxing came back to Spring Hill with three Sugar Bert belts and four second-place medals after sending seven boxers to the Sugar Bert Boxing Kissimmee Disney Tournament at the Holiday Inn Resort in Kissimmee. Ka’mar Dames, Jayden Soto and Anthony Page won belts, while Francesco Alagna, Jimmy Ramos, Christian Hall and Cadyn Fairbanks finished second, a strong showing that put Hernando County’s young fighters on the regional map.

The tournament ran May 21-24, 2026, at 3011 Maingate Lane and was open to all divisions and weight classes, with boxers ranging from 0 to 100 fights eligible to register. That made the field broad enough to test newcomers and experienced competitors alike, and Coach Frank Alagna’s group held up well across the bracket. For a local gym built around youth development, the result mattered because it showed Team Frankie could send a sizable roster, compete with a wide range of opponents and bring home hardware from a major Central Florida event.

The trip also carried a bigger lesson for the fighters than the medals alone. The team met Omari Jones, the U.S. Olympic bronze medalist who earned bronze in the men’s 71-kilogram division at the 2024 Paris Olympics, signed with Matchroom Boxing in January 2025 and made his professional debut in Orlando in March 2025 with a second-round stoppage win. Jones signed Team Frankie’s newest championship belt, giving the Spring Hill boxers a direct link to a fighter who moved from Olympic success to the professional ranks in Florida.

That kind of moment fits the way Frank Alagna has positioned the program in Hernando County. Team Frankie moved into a larger space at 13479 Chambord St. at the start of 2026, leaving its previous home at Primal Striking and Brazilian Jujitsu on Cortez Boulevard. The new gym is about 1,700 square feet and is designed to handle more than 50 members, a scale that helps explain how the program can support a growing roster of local kids while still producing results at outside tournaments.

Alagna said he was proud of his boxers for giving their all, and the finish in Kissimmee backed up that view. In a county where youth sports often center on school fields and courts, Team Frankie is offering another path close to home, one built around discipline, conditioning and competition. The belts from Kissimmee give Spring Hill families a tangible sign that the gym is becoming a steady force in Hernando County boxing.