Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Scenes From a Boxing Gym

My pal Brian Schiff showing his nephew Ari  the ropes at the Naval Academy Boxing Gym. Brian is a long time friend of boxing: as fan, a one time writer for Ring Magazine and in a moment of brief insanity, once sparred with Tommy Hearns. Nephew Ari is graduating from the Naval Academy. Congrats!

 Above and Below: Brian Schiff (L) and Ari Schiff



2 comments:

brian said...

HA!Thanks..particularly the part about sparring with Tommy Hearns;he hit me so hard I lost my memory.

Randy De La O said...

Hearns has a way of doing that to people. I think those pics are really cool. What a great gym. Too bad Hearns wasn't around!

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