Gleason's Gym

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Boxing ring at Gleason's Gym, 2012.

Gleason's is a boxing gym located on the Brooklyn waterfront. The gym was founded by Peter Gagliardi, a former bantamweight, who changed his name to Bobby Gleason. It moved to Manhattan and then to Brooklyn. Gleason's is now owned by Bruce Silverglade. [1]

Gleason's Gym entrance on Water Street in DUMBO, 2019 Gleason's Gym, 130 Water Street, Brooklyn NY.jpg
Gleason's Gym entrance on Water Street in DUMBO, 2019

There is a sign on the wall at Gleason's, posting an invitation from the poet Virgil: "Now, whoever has courage, and a strong and collected spirit in his breast, let him come forward, lace on the gloves and put up his hands." (Aeneid 5.363-364) Prizefighters have long answered this call at Gleason's and some still do. [2]

There is an illustrated book called At Gleason's Gym. [3] Owner Bruce Silverglade and Gleason's trainer Hector Roca co-authored the book The Gleason's Gym: Total Body Boxing Workout for Women, with a foreword by actor Hilary Swank (she famously thanked Hector Roca when she received her Oscar for her role in the boxing movie "Million Dollar Baby"). [4] There is a book called White Collar Boxing: One Man's Journey from the Office to the Ring, in which John E. Oden describes Gleason's Gym in Chapter 6. [5]

In 2015, part of episode 18, season 4, of the television comedy show " Impractical Jokers " took place at the gym.

The Season 11 premiere of Ink Master filmed the gym which was used as the location where 22 artists competed to earn a spot on Team Cleen or Team Christian by tattooing a subject in one of the coaches' specialties for six hours.

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References

  1. ↑ "The Gentleman Boxer". Village Voice. 2008-11-25.
  2. ↑ ""And in this Corner the Insurance Broker"". Wall Street Journal, Aug. 21, 2002 (retrieved from author's website). Archived from the original on 2008-01-24. Retrieved 2007-10-10.
  3. ↑ At Gleason's Gym, Ted Lewin. 2007. ISBN   978-1-59643-231-4, ISBN   1-59643-231-4. Published by: Roring Book Press, New Mildford, Connecticut. United States.
  4. ↑ Hector Roca & Bruce Silverglade, The Gleason's Gym: Total Body Boxing Workout for Women. 2006. ISBN   978-0-7432-8687-9. Published by: Fireside (Simon & Schuster, Inc.), New York, NY.
  5. ↑ John E. Oden, White Collar Boxing: One Man's Journey from the Office to the Ring. 2005. ISBN   1-57826-207-0. Published by: Hatherleigh Press, Long Island City, New York. United States.

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