Coach Solo gets Marcel ready for the bag to practice focus. Credit: Maya McFadden Photos Bill Moore Jr (right) practices punching and endurance. While suited up in a pair of boxing gloves, 19-year-old ...
SPRINGFIELD — Tape stretches tight around his thumb, then loops across his palm — each wrap a ritual, each movement a kind of promise. In a small Springfield gym, Yaimil “El Chucky” Lozada is getting ...