Early Life
Raised in East Los Angeles, Estrada is the son of former 1968 Mexican Olympic team boxer Juan Estrada and the youngest of 16 siblings. He credits the sport of boxing as the force that kept him out of gangs growing up, His father had hoped to travel to the Beijing Olympics with his son, but his failing health kept him home in Maywood. On August 17, 2008 his father died at St. Vincent Medical Center.
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