NEW HAVEN — Coach Soloman Maye, 51, at Get 'Em Boy Boxing gym was working up a sweat, training two energetic young men as they started to hit the heavy bag with focus. Gloved up, Marcel Carr, 19, and ...
Coach Solo gets Marcel ready for the bag to practice focus. Credit: Maya McFadden Photos Bill Moore Jr (right) practices punching and endurance. While suited up in a pair of boxing gloves, 19-year-old ...
SPRINGFIELD — Tape stretches tight around his thumb, then loops across his palm — each wrap a ritual, each movement a kind of promise. In a small Springfield gym, Yaimil “El Chucky” Lozada is getting ...