Sandra Gonzalez WGNO

6:14 p.m. CST, February 3, 2012
New Orleans—

Demond Brock has a dream: making it to the 2012 Summer Olympics in London this year.

"I visualized this before it even happened," Brock said.

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He saw this from behind bars, while he was in prison. Brock just got out last June after serving 15 years, starting with a sentence from armed robbery when he was just a teenager. Now he's 30.

"I was young. I didn`t really know how to work, didn`t really know how to earn an honest dollar. So the next thing I resorted to selling drugs or committing robberies," Brock said.

It was in prison that Brock met his trainer, mentor and "second" father: Valrice Cooper.  Cooper trained boxers in prison.

"I feel like I took a bad person, a bad attitude youngster and made him believe in his dream that he could accomplish something, well that`s what I do," Cooper said.

Valrice wasn't just in prison for trainer boxers.

"I`ve been in prison most of my life. I`ve been in prison since I was 17 years old. I went to prison in 1976 and I stayed in prison for 35 flat years," Cooper said.

He just got out of prison too, in October. He was in for armed robbery, just like Demond Brock.

Valrice really believes in Demond and sees the hunger in him that helped Demond win one championship after another in the state prison system. And once Demond was out, in three days he was already receiving calls to compete. Now he's only two championships from earning a spot on the Olympic team.

"I feel like God has me there for a reason, all this was supposed to happen, all this was meant to be," Brock said.

Now he's trying to raise money to get to the 2012 USA Boxing National Championships in Colorado. Then he'd advance to Brazil, before trying to make it the U.S. team to compete in London.