If you’ve ever walked in the jungle or forest to get to a remote place you know it’s not easy. Along the path you have to make decisions; do you go around something because it’s easier or do you take that shortcut straight through the prickers and risk getting painfully cut and scratched.

Gabriel “Gabe” Rosado took the Hard Road. Instead of planning properly for his trip and making sure he has the gear to keep him dry and warm and bringing plenty of water with him, Gabe never got the luxury of getting enough notice to properly plan and train for many of his opponents.

Not only did Gabe take many fights on short notice, but had a career with one of the hardest scheduled in recent memory. Some of the big names he fought: The Dog Alfredo Angulo, Lion Jermell Charlo, Big Power David Lemieux, The Great Gennady Golovkin, J’ Leon Love, Peter Quillin, Kassim Ouma, Willie Monroe Jr., Martin Murray, Jesus Soto Karass, Joshua Clottey and many other top boxers.

Now at age 32, you wouldn’t expect Rosado to take an easy fight. On November 17th in Kansas, Gabe will take on tough and brash Luis Arias (18-1)who only has one defeat at the hands of New IBF Middleweight Champion Daniel Jacobs.

Rosado has done almost everything there is to do in boxing. He has fought the best boxers on the planet, he even fought in Big Knockout Boxing (a start-up type of boxing with Tweaks, such as making the ring smaller, to increase the percentage of a knockout and dishing your opponent heavier damage while taking more damage as well) and Gabe is part of everybody’s favorite boxing movie; The Rocky Series. Gabe played a boxer that took on Apollo Creed‘s son in the 2015 Movie Greed.