Boxing Making A Comeback With US Youth

[ChopperRead]

As schools cut athletic programs, boxing is experiencing a renaissance in the USA.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/27/us...g.html?_r=1&hp

[RSBonos]

Nice article.

[mrpain81]

Good read.

About time these gyms start filling back up.

[ChopperRead]

Nice article.

Yeah, who knows, the next Ali or Tyson might be one of these kids in Toledo.

[Mayweather41-0]

Great article thanks for posting ChopperRead.

I spend summers with my cousins sometimes in Mexico and Ireland and so many more kids box in those countries and there are so many more Boxing gyms around there then in America.

[ChopperRead]

Great article thanks for posting ChopperRead.

I spend summers with my cousins sometimes in Mexico and Ireland and so many more kids box in those countries and there are so many more Boxing gyms around there then in America.

Looks like that might be about to change!

[Check]

Nice read. TBH, even with the rise of other sports I never worried about youth boxing in America. Boxing is a very cheap sport, so there will always be children in the ring. It would be helpful to have more people pushing it though. Especially for smaller guys, boxing is a great avenue(sportwise) to get out of the slums. If you're 130lbs you have no future in football, basketball or baseball.

[Chief2ndzOnly!]

Great read TS.

[ChopperRead]

Nice read. TBH, even with the rise of other sports I never worried about youth boxing in America. Boxing is a very cheap sport, so there will always be children in the ring. It would be helpful to have more people pushing it though. Especially for smaller guys, boxing is a great avenue(sportwise) to get out of the slums. If you're 130lbs you have no future in football, basketball or baseball.

Boxing is the sport of tough economic times, and with the "new normal" of 9% unemployment in the US (in reality closer to 15% when you count people off the grid), it makes sense that boxing is starting to thrive again.

[Kevin Malone]

same thing in the uk

http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/comment/articles/2010-11/10/gq-comment-tony-parsons-boxing-schools