"Despite what you may hear from some pundit or see on the back of a t-shirt, you do play boxing."
Neighborhood Boxing Match · Brooklyn, 1940s
Padded gloves on a padded floor with ropes around it and an audience sounds like a sporting event to me. Shake hands before, hug after. That's a game, not a grudge.
Whatever rhetoric precedes the game is purely promotional.
How did they do it in the old days? World War 1, the Spanish Influenza, Great Depression and World War 2 without an iPhone, Instagram or Google Maps? Same way we made it through 9/11, cancel culture and Artificial Intelligence.
Every generation faces their own set of challenges, none easier than the other. Just different.
It's a Sport
Padded gloves on a padded floor with ropes around it and an audience sounds like a sporting event. Shake hands before, hug after. That's a game, not a grudge.
Mental Fortitude
Every generation faces their own set of challenges, none easier than the other. Just different. Boxing teaches you to face yours head-on.
Community
When you start speaking Brooklyn to people, with a little practice they start speaking Brooklyn back. The gym builds the neighborhood.
Physical Fitness
How did they do it in the old days? World War 1, the Spanish Influenza, the Great Depression — without an iPhone or Google Maps. Same way we made it through everything since.
Character
You're only as smart as you are tough. You're only as good as you are brave. You're only you as you are unique.
New York Spirit
You don't have to be from New York to be a New Yorker, you just have to speak the language. The gym teaches you that language.
When people bemoan that 'everybody gets a trophy' these days, they were saying the same thing when I was a kid and that was in the 1960's.
Calm down Ty Cobb. Just play the game.
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