This Saturday night Ryan Caballero will step in the ring for his biggest fight of his young professional career. Caballero is on the undercard of the Chris Arreola / Seth Mitchell fight that will be held right in Ryan’s home town of Indio, CA. while there is no opponent named as of yet, Caballero is ready for whatever challenge he will have to face.

Ryan is no stranger to boxing. He comes from a boxing family. He is also the younger brother of the good fighter Randy, and Ryan hopes to make as big an impression as his big brother.

There are two other boxing brothers in the Caballero family. Besides 19-year-old Ryan and 22-year-old Randy, there is also Robert, who is now 25 years of age and used to fight as an amateur, and youngest brother Rommel, who is 14 and will be the final brother to turn pro, and he is anxiously waiting to do so.

“Robert was training but he never wanted to get in the ring,” father Marcos said. “One day he said that he wanted to do it. After that it was just one after another. He started going in, and he ended up going to the National Junior Olympics.”

According to Marcos, Randy was crying because he wanted to be where Robert was. The solution?

“My wife Stephanie had to drive him all the way to Los Angeles from Coachella so he could Randy could be with his brother at the Junior Olympics, Marcos said. “It was the first time she had ever driven to L.A. She told me he’d been crying, what should she do? I had the car, so I told her to rent a car and bring him to L.A.”

We all know that that worked out well for Randy, and it was a natural progression for Ryan to follow suit. Ryan won one of the first belts given in Texas for a first place win in a tournament. He was only eight years old at the time.

“We got calls from Jay Leno and Good Morning America, to do an interview,” Marcos recalled, “because it had been in the newspaper, and he was so little to have a belt. Now he does better than before, but back then he wouldn’t talk. He’ll answer questions but not talk much. They said, ‘We love your son’s story, but he won’t talk.’”

Ryan will get better at that – practice makes perfect, and as he climbs the ladder he will get more opportunities to hone his interview skills. Until then he will just have to let his gloves do the talking inside the ring.

Marcos was also a boxer, fighting both here in the States as well as his home country of Nicaragua. While he never turned pro, Marcos had enough fights to learn the ins and outs of the craft.

There are many fathers who train their sons, but Marcos has it a bit harder than most. He has four sons that he trains or has trained, not just one or two. And the more he gets into it, the more he understands just how complicated it can be.

“From the first day I’ve been training my kids – all my kids,” Marcos said. “It is hard, because you have to separate from being a father to being a trainer. It is difficult. I thought it would be easier because you have a good relationship, but it gets harder, especially when they are not mentally ready.

“If they get knocked out…I do not want to see my son on the ground. I make sure they’re 100%, but it still kills me sometimes. Its like, ‘What if he gets knocked out? What about this, what about that?’ I try to work with them mentally for whatever happens. I’ve seen a lot of other fathers who train their sons, and it’s tough. You have to tell them the right things to win the fight. If you don’t have the experience to do it, it all goes on you, because you don’t know what to say. It’s very scary.

“I’m getting more used to it now, but I still get that nervous feeling sometimes. Especially for Ryan. Ryan can fight, he’s not afraid to fight anybody, he has the heart. But if I tell him to do something he won’t do it, he does it his way. That kind of worries me a little bit, because that doesn’t help me with him and other opponents. So it’s just a little harder for me.”

And while Marcos might be able to separate the father and son bond into trainer and student, he doesn’t feel it is easy for his boys to do that.

“I think for them, I’m the father, and they won’t separate it. I’m tough, I’ll be honest, I’m a strong person. I want to be sure they’re 100%, otherwise I won’t put them in the ring. I want them to succeed. I’ve got Randy knocking on the door, and I pray to God every day to give us a chance to become world champion. He has the charisma to succeed. He does everything I tell him to, and I just hope and pray that he gets his chance – just one chance.”

Even though there have been challenges for the trainer and father, Marcos has never had a moment where he wanted to bring someone else in to do the job. But he is open-minded.

“If one of my sons would come up to me and says, ‘Hey dad, I don’t want you training me anymore,’ I won’t get in an argument over it. But at the moment I think we’re good. I have helped other fighters like Antonio Diaz, and I helped Corrales for a fight here, I have experience. But if that happened with one of my boys I would understand, and we would move forward.”

So on Saturday, Randy and Rommel will just have to be content to not be in the ring fighting their own battles, but instead watch their brother Ryan in his second pro fight. I’m sure they won’t mind, for each of them will have big moments of their own soon enough.