BOXING

My Father was a huge boxing fan. it rubbed off on me. My appreciation for the intense training and the spectacle of the gym and the arena always attracted my lens.

TRADE was filmed in 1969 in Gill Clancy's Telstar boxing gym. It shows Black boxers training then practicing their Trade.

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UNWRAPPING BANDAGES

RIGHT HOOK

EMIL GRIFFITH

KINGSWAY GYM

WALTER BYERS, MIDDLEWEIGHT

BOSTON GARDEN 1957

TRADING PUNCHES

HAND WRAPS

TELSTAR GYM '65

ASPIRING BOXER

CLINCH

POW!

ROUND FIVE

BOXER