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Gleason's Fitness center is the last remaining establishment of New York's Golden Time of boxing. Jake LaMotta, Muhammad Ali, Hector Camacho, Mike Tyson - the alumni of Gleason's are a roster of boxing greats. Founded in the Bronx in 1937, Gleason's moved in the mid-1980s from what has since become one of New York's wealthiest residential areas - Brooklyn's DUMBO. Gleason's in addition has transformed, starting its gates to new customers, specifically women and white-collar men. Come Out Swinging is Lucia Trimbur's nuanced insider's bill of a place that was once the domain name of poor and working-class men of color but is currently shared by abundant and poor, male and feminine, dark-colored and white, and young and old. Come Out Swinging chronicles the everyday world of the fitness center. Its diverse customers train, fight, have a discussion, and socialize mutually. We meet amateurs for whom boxing is a full-time, unpaid job. We become familiar with the instructors who become their father characters and mentors. Our company is launched to women who empower themselves in physical form and mentally. And we come across the male metropolitan pros who pay handsomely to figure out how to box, and also to access a kind of masculinity missing from other office-bound lives. Inevitably, Come Out Swinging discloses how Gleason's fits the needs of an assortment of individuals who, despite their distinctions, are linked through self-discipline and sport.
