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H2O Man

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15. I enjoy this.
Sun Sep 26, 2021, 10:30 PM
Sep 2021

I'm likely going to meet a teenager new to this area who is interested in boxing. He had started training himself on Long Island, before his family moved up here in the sticks. The head of the teachers union contacted me a week ago, as she knows my family -- she taught two of my daughters, one now living and boxing in Boston. Anyhow, I suggested my son train him, but his current schedule isn't really open. (Since he hasn't had any fights since covid started, he's competing in 32-mile races with 60 obstacles along the way.)

It's a beautiful but brutal sport. I wish my children didn't fight, but they are carrying on a tradition that goes back many generations. I train my son leading yp to his fights, but he's good at keeping in shape. Since the finals of the state Golden Gloves were cancelled in April of 2020, he's only taken 10 days off from training.

He's helped me with training others over the years, and is very good at it. I don't train many fighters these days, but every one I've trained since 1975 has won the Golden Gloves. I'm confident my son will carry that tradition on when he stops fighting. My daughter, a social worker, trains girls from low-income families in the summer, when they are out of school.

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I watched that special too gopiscrap Sep 2021 #1
I remember that one of them heard 'hit that ni__er' from the audience and wondered which fighter was keithbvadu2 Sep 2021 #2
The "anchor punch." H2O Man Sep 2021 #3
Great stuff! I did read of the story Ali told about being taught Tomconroy Sep 2021 #4
Both before H2O Man Sep 2021 #5
So how good a boxer was Ali? Tomconroy Sep 2021 #6
He was at the H2O Man Sep 2021 #7
Here's a woman's perspective on the punch: Tomconroy Sep 2021 #8
Right. H2O Man Sep 2021 #10
I sure wouldn't have wanted to get on Sonny Liston's wrong side! Tomconroy Sep 2021 #9
Right. H2O Man Sep 2021 #11
I just found this video. In slow motion you can see Tomconroy Sep 2021 #12
Yeah. H2O Man Sep 2021 #13
I really appreciate your writing in. I learned a lot. Tomconroy Sep 2021 #14
I enjoy this. H2O Man Sep 2021 #15
A couple questions for you. StevieM Oct 2021 #16
Good questions. H2O Man Oct 2021 #17
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