James Young

Dale Youth Amateur Boxing Club, which has produced world-class boxers such as James DeGale and George Groves, was housed at the foot of Grenfell Tower for 17 years. The club was made homeless in the blaze that killed 71 people last June. It later…

Rap music is blasting in the Friday Harbor Youth Boxing gym and instructor Booboo James is in the boxing ring teaching her student a combination ?Right, right, left, uppercut,? she hollers. ?Just a few more seconds, you're almost done. Okay, well…

?Gloves up, Guns Down? is a boxing program that helps young kids and teens find a purpose. James Hankinson and his wife started the program in May and they already have 31 kids enrolled. The kids range in age from 3 to 17. The focus is on boxing, but…

Antwoine Dorm barks encouragement from behind the ropes of a boxing ring to a pair of his students. ?Shorten your punches up!? he shouts to the two young boxers in the ring. Their fists and feet moving to the beat of James Brown music blaring over the …