In the June 13 Detroit News, Rod Beard writes a great story about the Downtown Boxing Gym Youth Program, which helps kids thrive by developing their discipline and focus through training to box. In “A First-Class Sport,” an essay in Fighters & Writers, I discuss a similar program at another gym and marshal the arguments supporting such efforts. Not only boxers and trainers, but senators and presidents, among others, have noted the real benefit of boxing for young people, but this has not been as widely recognized as it should be, I sense. I hope Beard’s article helps get the message across.
