Bam on boxing, gyms and trainers

[The_budweiser]

Did you ever go into a boxing gym and it was hummin’? When you walk into one that is popping with activity you can cut the atmosphere with a knife. All kinds of people are around when the gym is busy--young kids, teenagers, men and women. Many of them are trying to "shed the skin" they are in. They want to alter their future, get ahead in boxing.

 

The trainers, managers and hangers-on are like characters out of a movie. They say some of the funniest and most profound things. Most managers and trainers never make it to the point with a fighter that they can honestly say: "I made some money." Some guys squeeze by and have full-time or part-time jobs. They may work in the gym with a kid for a couple of months, then the kid calls it quits.

 

There is a unique quality about fight trainers. There is so much one-on-one coaching in boxing that the fighter forms a bond with his (or her) trainer. The fighter depends on the trainer--it is like a shot of adrenaline to hear the trainer’s advice. I have seen it up-close-and-personal at Shuler’s Gym, Fast Lane, Lonnie Young Recreation Center, Front Street, Harrowgate, the Joe Hand Gym and others.

 

When a fighter is in the ring, he is in control of where he goes and how he gets there. “Being in the ring is like nothing else," says local welterweight prospect Ray Robinson (left). Robinson feels he is in control inside the ropes. He can orchestrate what is happening; he is comfortable. His relationship with his trainer Moses is a father-son relationship.

 

Lucky fighters and trainers have that bond. When a fighter respects and trusts his trainer, the bond becomes stronger. Much of the time, the trainer knows more about his fighter than the fighter’s friends and family. They are more than just trainers, they are a fighter’s guiding light.

The Opponent

 

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