All posts tagged "Bruce silverglade"
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Worldwide
NYF Archival Hit: White Collar Boxing
White collar boxing, many if not most readers of this site know the term. I wrote this critique in February 2006 for The Harlem Times. I...
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Worldwide
Boxing Documentary ‘TitleShot’ A Compelling Time Capsule
It’s a time capsule, and a head trip if you know the faces that pop onto the screen. There’s Bobby Cassidy Sr, there’s Bobby Cassidy Jr,...
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New York
RIP Papa: Bidding Farewell To Hector Roca
Hector Roca, the Panamanian cyclist turned boxing trainer who fashioned a home base for himself at Gleason’s Gym in Brooklyn, where he was revered for his...
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New York
News Drop Soon! Gleason’s Gym Fantasy Camp Details Coming Shortly
The Gleason's Gym Fantasy Camp, run by the esteemed Brooklyn icon Bruce Silverglade, will be back in finer than ever form, August 11-14, in Atlantic City....
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Announcements
Gleason’s Gym Offers Masters Clinic and Show March 18-19
Gleason's Gym, the most famous boxing gym in this universe, presents a MASTERS CLINIC and SHOW on March 18-19, so get to it, register now. There will...
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New York
Gleason’s Springing Into New Season, Action Heating Up At Famed & Fabled Gym
Attention aspiring female fighters! On April 8-9, Gleason's Gym, the most famous boxing gym in the world, plays host to a clinic open ONLY to the...
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New York
Gleason’s Is Rockin’: Friday Is Charity Fight Night, Training Clinic Runs Saturday-Sunday
Boxing is back at Gleason’s Gym, and that’s something to celebrate, being that the revered institution went dark in March 2020, because of a state Covid...
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New York
Knowing You Can Thwart Rando Attack Is Priceless Feeling: Get It At Gleason’s Gym From Norm Steiner
Fighting has always been around and always will be. The format will change but the basic concept won’t. Mike Tyson put it neatly when he told...
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New York
ALERT! Gleason’s Self Defense Class Starts Sunday
Hear ye, hear ye! You know it to be true, life can be trying. The world often operates not in the way we wish it would,...
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Worldwide
Gleason’s Gym Fantasy Camp Has A Few Spots Available: This Can Be Your COVID Comeback Launch Pad
The Gleason’s Gym Fantasy Camp is in comeback mode, which is so apt for the sport of boxing, after the 2020 camp session got cancelled because...
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New York
Gleason’s Offers Class For Training Certificate
Gleason’s Gym will host a Boxing Certification Clinic for Personal Trainers on Aug. 21 – 22 and then again Nov. 20 – 21. There will be two days of...
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Worldwide
Boxing Will Be Allowed At Madison Square Garden and Barclays Center As Of Feb. 23
There is light at the end of this tunnel, but sometimes it's hard to see, because it's easy to go down a rabbit hole of anxiety,...
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Worldwide
Gleason’s Gym Boss Bruce Silverglade Recalls Leon Spinks Fondly
Here is a note from Bruce Silverglade, the boss of the famed and fabled Gleasons Gym in DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY, USA. The gym-runner reacted to the...
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New York
UPDATE: Here Is News On Gleason’s Gym Masters Clinic
ALERT: The Gleason's Gym Master Clinic is OFF, and the new dates will be announced, pending government approval. Most of you know, with uncertainty swirling with the...
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Worldwide
SUCCESS ALERT! Gleason’s Gym Has Been Proving That GYMS Are Ultra Safe
Media has a bad habit of not playing up wins. We are good at getting out the magnifying glass, and then the mega-phone, and shouting far...
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Worldwide
Gleason’s Gym Re-Opened Sept. 2, Here’s How It’s Gone So Far
On Sept. 16, Bruce Silverglade had his tablet in hand, and he walked around Gleason's, the famed and fabled fighting emporium, and the persons inside knew...
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Worldwide
Bruce Silverglade Asks Cuomo To Allow BOXERS To Start Training Camp
Judiciously, but surely, with ample caution, New York edges closer toward re-opening. Too slow for some, certainly, the fact that the vast majority of businesses were...
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New York
Tears Fell Hard When When He Died– Yes, Jimmy Glenn Left An Immense Legacy
The first year on earth for Jimmy Glenn was 1930 and the whole way through, he was soft spoken, a thoroughly decent soul in a sport...
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Worldwide
Gleason’s Gym Boss Bruce Silverglade Offers Soothing Words, Plans For Re-Opening
Hello NY Fights fans, I do hope all the good people out there are well, of body and mind, during this trying time. Yes, that goes...
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New York
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...