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By Thomas Gerbasi - Marshall Kauffman has seen a lot in his years in the fight game. Some good, some bad, but whatever he’s dealing with at the moment at his King’s Gym in Reading, Pennsylvania, he’s hooked on boxing, and that’s not likely to ever change.
So when you ask him why 36-year-old Keenan Collins – a boxer he has coached since the day he walked into the gym in 2001 still fights – Kauffman knows why. Of course there’s the grasp the sport gets on you, but the other purpose is a nobler one.
“Sometimes you wonder, what is it that motivates you, what is it that drives you?” said Kauffman. “And for Keenan, I think it’s about setting an example, not only for himself and his family, but for the people that are around him.”
That’s probably not the description that would have been pinned on Collins when he was a wild kid getting into trouble and eventually spending three years in prison for aggravated assault back in the mid-90s. He was still a teenager then, old enough to know better but young enough to not act on that knowledge. Yet when he came out of the system, he was determined not to go back. [Click Here To Read More]
So when you ask him why 36-year-old Keenan Collins – a boxer he has coached since the day he walked into the gym in 2001 still fights – Kauffman knows why. Of course there’s the grasp the sport gets on you, but the other purpose is a nobler one.
“Sometimes you wonder, what is it that motivates you, what is it that drives you?” said Kauffman. “And for Keenan, I think it’s about setting an example, not only for himself and his family, but for the people that are around him.”
That’s probably not the description that would have been pinned on Collins when he was a wild kid getting into trouble and eventually spending three years in prison for aggravated assault back in the mid-90s. He was still a teenager then, old enough to know better but young enough to not act on that knowledge. Yet when he came out of the system, he was determined not to go back. [Click Here To Read More]
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