BoxRec

A post EVANDER made about boxings decline in Detroit has me thinking.

How many boxing gyms are open and functioning in your city? How are they funded? Are they community centers funded by the city or police department or are they privately funded by individuals? How much does it cost to train there or is it free like where I learned?

I'm talking about boxing gyms. Not fitness centers with cardio boxing classes, or mma gyms.

Please tell your city and the name of gyms you know are open.

I know in Shreveport, Louisiana there is one gym, PAXTONS, and it is free to train there. All you have to pay is your USA Boxing fees if you plan on fighting. He trains the fighters himself. All equipment is provided. There is another one I have heard of but don't have all the details on it.

Here in Yeosu, South Korea there are a few boxing gyms but they charge $50-$100 a month. We train boxing at my MMA gym I train at, but we also train Muay Thai and MMA.

Good Shephard is the only one that I am aware of here in the Akron Ohio area. I'm pretty sure it's privately owned. There are quite a few in Cleveland, but of course it's a much smaller number than years ago.

In the 60's through the mid 70's there were at least 8 boxing gyms in the greater Akron area that I recall.

Anyone stating that boxers are better today is sadly ill advised. You can't develop boxers without gyms and trainers and unfortunately there's hardly any left. The reason that Euro boxers are in general more prevalent at the world class levels than in the past has nothing to do with boxing being more popular in Europe than it used to be, but more with the fact that is isn’t very popular in the US anymore so we just don’t produce many boxers from this country. Boxing was very popular in Europe in the past, it just hasn’t lost as much popularity in Europe as it has in the US.