The Toughest Pound-For-Pound Fighter In The County

Tim Botos: ALLIANCE — Sorry Floyd Mayweather, the toughest pound-for-pound fighter in the country might be Trenton Ball. He lives inside an apartment on Lakeview Avenue. He sleeps in a crib, drinks from a bottle and smiles big when mommy cuddles him in her arms.

It would have surprised no one if Trenton had died the same day he was born, in March. Or, if he'd not battled through 93 days in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Aultman Hospital.

"You'd have gotten long odds in Vegas," said Dr. Roger Vazquez, a neonatologist at Aultman, who cared for Trenton. "He really had everything going against him from the start."