Many people who have not visited the inner city in most major areas of the US do not understand what a vital role boxing can play to keep kids off the street. For some youth boxing keeps them focused, in shape and away from the Gang Scene, which will most likely end them up in jail or dead before their twentieth birthday.
Boxing in America gives hope to young people and gives them a reason to give a 100% in the things they do. Often these young boxers do very well in school and actually end up making it out of the ghetto and finding a real life elsewhere. These neighborhood boxing clubs transform these kids and teach them respect, discipline and dedication to win.
If we look at boxing not as a sport where two men try to kill each other, but rather in its entirety, we see a whole different situation with Boxing in America and How it Transforms Street Kids into great citizens and young adults. The number of lives changed by these clubs indeed is worth its weight in the golden gloves.
Rather than trying to take the tiger out of the street kids and treat them as moma’s boys denying them their innate characteristics, it behooves us to channel this energy into something far greater. This is one of the reasons I am pro-boxing as a way to help inner city kids become men and join us in our common cause to curb crime and lost lives in our civilization. Please consider all this in 2006.