Hub City boxing club provides free mentorship to youth
JACKSON, Tenn. — One local non-profit is asking for the community’s support to help mentor young lives.
That non-profit is Team Ingram’s Rayford Collins Jackson Boxing Club.
It’s a free boxing center that offers children ages 7 to 17 an outlet to decompress.
Since 2017, Lamont Ingram has opened his boxing club doors to help give young boys a place to receive free boxing lessons and mentorship.
“A lot of the kids unfortunately can not afford it. So it does no good to punish the child because the parent can’t afford it. So that’s why I always say ‘the child pays me back by showing up, working hard, and doing what they’re supposed to do,'” said Ingram.
He, along with other coaches, donates time to help these junior amateur boxers.
“You are your biggest opponent. Being in that ring, staying disciplined and that’s what he teaches us is being able to stay focused and not lose control. The one that loses control is the one that loses the battle,” said Demarko Clay, boxer for Team Ingram’s Rayford Collins Jackson Boxing Club.
On Saturday, September 21, Ingram will host the professional boxing show and on Saturday, October 26, the 9th annual Hub City Boxing Belt show will bring in boxers from near and far.
“The show we got coming up this time we have Puerto Rico coming, we have Canada coming again, California, Dominican Republic and all the southeast and Midwest,” said Ingram.
The professional boxing show will be helping the junior boxers and coaches in a huge way.
“Raise money to get a van so we can travel cause right now it’s kind of hard for us to travel and take the kids to events. Also we take the kids to the bowling alley take them to the movies spend time with them,” said Ingram.
Ingram also shares another way community members can help.
“If anybody wants to write a us check or give us some monetary donation bring us some water, bring us some Gatorade down here or granola bars for these kids even bring us oranges and apples we cool with that because kids eat those,” said Ingram.
Currently Ingram shares that they have a total of 15 amateur boxers.
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