"That's been my ambition since I was a little kid setting foot in the boxing gym, " he said.
Ruiz said he now plans to move from Las Vegas to his hometown of Boston in order to open a boxing gym in the inner city.
And yet, as he spends day after day in a Puerto Rican boxing gym, preparing for Salita, Camacho Jr. finds himself haunted by a man and a legacy.
The estate includes an 11, 500-square foot mansion, a two-bedroom guest house, a 2, 500-square-foot gym with boxing ring, a pool with a grotto, and a putting green.
But Cleverly left to train at his father's gym at Church Place Amateur Boxing Club in Bargoed, south Wales.
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The film profiles four people whose lives center on the New Bed-Stuy Boxing Center, a dingy bare-bones gym in the heart of one of New York's most hope-deprived neighborhoods.
Burstein first got the idea for the film while she was learning boxing from Harry Keitt at his Bed-Stuy gym.
He haunted the library and rarely skipped class, heading to the gym most days after school to practice boxing, said his classmate, Luis Vasquez.
Instead of a full-size health club there's a gym with a few machines, weights and boxing gear.
Droitwich Amateur Boxing Club hopes to relocate its 200 members to the new gym close to its current Kidderminster Road home by the end of the summer.
Hope says that training at Talon Boxing is very different to his former camp at the Calzaghe gym in Newbridge, where he used to work alongside the likes of Joe Calzaghe and Enzo Maccarinelli.
Roach's cramped Hollywood gym, the Wild Card, is now a boxing mecca, and the trainer enjoys the trappings of success a slick Mercedes in the garage, the ability to pamper his mother and a flattering appointment as a U.S. Olympic boxing team coach.
They trained at the same gym, and the pair met "a few times" in recent years at boxing events, Anzor Tsarnaev said.
The gym walls and ceiling were a patchwork of pictures, photos and discoloured clippings from newspapers and old boxing programmes.
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