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The Story of Brad
JOHN WIGHT writes on his time training at a boxing club in Los Angeles, brushing shoulders with Hollywood actors, and his memories of a prodigal fighter
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As antisemitism spread across Europe and the United States in the 1920s and 1930s, Benny Leonard and Jack ‘Kid’ Berg became symbols of hope and resilience, writes JOHN WIGHT
IN FEBRUARY of 1995, I arrived in Los Angeles on what was originally intended to be a two-and-a-half week holiday.
I was there eager to hook up with Brad, a friend from Edinburgh who’d decamped to LA a few months prior to progress his professional boxing career under the tutelage of Freddie Roach at his Outlaw Boxing Club in Hollywood.
Brad was an 18-year-old kid who came into the category of “a force of nature.”
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