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GLEASON’S GYM UPDATE: World’s Most Famous Boxing Gym Looks To Re-Open

Hello NYF friends, family and newbie visitors to the site! Check out this message from the uber mensch Bruce Silverglade, the owner of the famed and...

Fight Network Making ‘Protect Yourself at All Times” Series, Hosted By Adrian Clark

Many of us have extra time on our hands during this reminder from higher powers that no, we don’t have as much control over all the...

Who Won and Lost the Week, April Showers Edition: Frontline COVID Battlers Snag W

Live fights are not happening, not unless you count social media scrums. So, it can be argued that there aren’t enough picks to choose from when...

ESPN Showing Classic Fights For 11 Hours on Saturday (Ali-Frazier I, Rumble in the Jungle, Hagler-Hearns, More)

  (April 16, 2020) — This Saturday, April 18, will be a day of classic boxing on ESPN when the network airs 11 consecutive hours of...

Fighters In VADA Testing Can Get Free Supplement Check

Fighters who get flagged for using a banned substance almost never say, “Yep, you got me, I was looking for a short-cut, I don’t think the...

Dan Rafael Is No Longer With ESPN, Contract Is Not Renewed

UPDATE, WEDNESDAY: Boxing lifer Dan Rafael posted to social media an update on his life, and vocational situation. The USA Today and ESPN vet said that...

Showtime’s Stephen Espinoza On Living During Lockdown, Dana White’s Recent Conduct

He lives downtown, the Battery Park area, and he’s been outside twice in four weeks.  The Showtime sports boss, Stephen Espinoza is adapting to the coronavirus...

Ryan Garcia Has Been Making All the Right Moves, But THIS PLAN Isn’t A Good One

Ryan Garcia has positioned himself as the hottest rising “attraction” in the sport, or had, before coronavirus rudely and savagely injected itself in the world’s psyche....

NY State Boxing HOF & Ring 8 Establish Fund to Assist Boxers and Boxing Personnel  

New York State Boxing HOF & Ring 8 establish fund to assist boxers and boxing personnel   NEW YORK (April 1, 2020) – The New York State...

Adrian Clark Links Up With Fight Network, Which Will Beef Up Boxing Content

TORONTO | NEW YORK – Fight Network, a subsidiary of Anthem Sports & Entertainment and the world’s premier combat sports network, announced today that author, producer...

Who Won and Lost the Weekend? The NYF Squad Weighs In

There has never been, in my memory, this sort of blackout for boxing. Coronavirus is laying people low, and the lack of clarity on the virus,...

Pennsylvania Man Lives A Carpe Diem Life, Cannot Wait To Step Into Gleason’s Gym

Tony Corbino is 51 years old, will be 52 on June 29 and is very much looking forward to traveling from PA to NY, to attend...

Watch Vazquez-Marquez Trilogy Saturday, March 28 on Showtime

NEW YORK – March 26, 2020 – SHOWTIME Sports will delve into its rich archive of historic boxing events to re-air the epic Israel Vázquez vs....

Anyone Anywhere Around the World Can Train With a Gleason’s Gym Trainer!

The new reality has set in for much of America, though in NY, it is more obvious, as we are in a densely packed area. Gleason’s...

TONIGHT, Watch DiBella Entertainment Classics On UFC Fight Pass (7 PM ET)

DBE BUSTS INTO LOU’S VAULT FOR A BROADWAY BOXING CLASSIC STREAMED ON UFC FIGHT PASS   MONDAY, MARCH 23, 7:00PM ET/4:00PM PT   WATCH TEVIN FARMER ON...

Wilder vs Fury 2 To Run Monday, March 23 (8 PM ET) On ESPN

Deontay Wilder- Tyson Fury II Special Encore Presentation to Headline Action-Packed Evening on ESPN, Monday, March 23   Wilder-Fury II streaming on demand on ESPN+ beginning Monday...

Gleason’s Will Bring the Gym To YOU!

Who Won the Weekend? “We Are All in This Together”

The world kept turning, Friday, Saturday, even Sunday, when we in NYC got word that schools would close, and on Tuesday, bars and concert halls and...

Gleason’s Gym, The WORLD Champion of CLEANLINESS Among Boxing Gyms

Maintaining normalcy, while dust kicks up around you, as walls crumble, it’s not easy. During times like these, it’s wise to seek out the sages, the...

FUCK YOU, CORONAVIRUS: Top Rank MSG Theater Shows Saturday & Tuesday POSTPONED

On Thursday evening, word trickled out, first on the Mike Coppinger and Lance Pugmire Twitter accounts. The Top Rank boxing events at the MSG Theater, on...