Chess boxing is the hybrid bloodsport taking NYC by storm: ‘Real punches to the face, no gimmicks about it’

It’s April 18and Max Medley is having an amateur sparring session at the inaugural Interclub chess boxing event at the iconic ...
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NYC’s oldest boxing gym – where Robert De Niro trained for ‘Raging Bull’ – keeps punching up its profile

This city’s oldest boxing gym is still punching up its profile. Gleason’s Gym — where Robert De Niro shaped up for “Raging Bull” and Hillary Swank trained for “Million Dollar Baby” — has danced like a ...
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Muhammad Ali is Still a Huge Fixture at Gleason's Gym

NEW YORK — In Gleason's Gym, under the Brooklyn Bridge, everybody remembers Muhammad Ali, "The Greatest," one of the many champions who have passed through this mythical New York gym where men and ...
The Brooklyn Paper

Historic Gleason’s Gym honored with street co-naming in Dumbo

Gleason’s Gym, renowned as the world’s most famous boxing gym, was honored with a street co-naming ceremony at the corner of Adams and Water Streets in Dumbo on Aug. 22. Boxing champions, including ...
FOX 10 Phoenix

World of Unpredictable Wrestling at Gleason's Gym

FOX5NY (WNYW-TV) - Gleason's Gym is a legendary boxing gym that sits in Dumbo right in between the Manhattan Bridge and Brooklyn Bridge. Boxers such as Muhammad Ali, Mike Tyson, Zab Judah, Jake ...
The Brooklyn Paper

Gleason’s Gym in Dumbo still packs a punch

Call it the sweet old science! Gleason’s Gym is the oldest active boxing gym in the nation and some of the world’s top punchers and celebrities have come through its doors ever since it opened.
Publishers Weekly

At Gleason’s Gym

In both words and pictures, Lewin (I Was a Teenage Professional Wrestler) effectively evokes the sounds, smells and action of Gleason’s Gym, a celebrated boxing gym located “on the Brooklyn waterfront ...
Boxing Scene

Judah-Greene Brawl Erupts in Gleason's Gym

It appears that a gym brawl erupted last week between the Judah clan and undefeated middleweight prospect "Mean" Joe Greene (16-0, 12KOs). Greene, who was doing some last minute sparring at Brooklyn's ...
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Oahu boxing club visited by owner of Gleason’s Gym

KALIHI, Hawaii (KHON2) — The Kakaako Boxing Club is giving back to the community and received a boost from one of the nation’s most well-known gyms of its kind on Friday, Nov. 25. It turns out the ...
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

‘The Interrupted Sky,’ a book of poems about 9/11, from Gleason’s Gym phenomenon ‘awesome’ David Lawrence

In the 20 years since September 11, 2001, David Lawrence, a highly accomplished writer who also teaches the brutal art of boxing at Gleason’s Gym in DUMBO, has produced thousands of poems published in ...
Reuters

Gleason's Gym remains a New York shrine

NEW YORK (Reuters) - One glance into Gleason's Gym reveals a snapshot that recalls the glory days of boxing, a time when the Sweet Science ruled the sporting landscape and New York was the center of ...