The Godfather
Feb 03, 2022
5 minutes
IOWE a lot to Manchester boxing coach Brian Hughes, who passed away on January 25. He was 82. Brian and I go back over 35 years. There was probably no-one who influenced my path in boxing more than he did.
We first met in 1986, long before I ever became editor of Boxing News. I was just a teenage amateur boxer with dreams and an obsession for the Kronk Gym in Detroit, where Brian had visited several times with his boxers.
Before that initial meeting, though, Brian and I had been in contact for about four years. I remember the headline ‘Kronk means kindness’ in the Boxing News letters section around 1981, detailing how he’d visited the Motor City with some of his amateur boxers (Ensley Bingham
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