Ray Luna

Ray Luna was a very well respected boxing man out of Los Angeles. Ray was active in Los Angeles boxing starting in the late 1940s working as a trainer/corner-man and manager for well-known Los Angeles fighters such as Art Aragon (corner man), he managed keeny Teran, Carlos Chavez and world bantamweight champion Manuel Ortiz (albeit late in their careers) et al. Ray was the trainer and manager of Ortiz at the time Ortiz fought and lost the bantamweight title to Vic Toweel in South Africa in 1950.

When not busy in boxing Ray worked as a bartender.

Ray and California Boxing Hall of Fame President Don Fraser were very good friends when both were single man and Ray’s bartender's job gave both a chance to meet the ladies, the boxing groupies of that era you could say.

For you that have seen the 1952 movie, “The Ring”, you can see Ray in the dressing room scene with Art Aragon.

Ray Luna died in the mid-‘80s.