Kenny Loehr reflects on his more than 50 years as boxing trainer, including a twelve-year stint coaching fighters at the DeSoto center in Pruitt-Igoe, a notorious housing project that used to be northwest of downtown.
Even at the tender age of eleven, Orlando Hill and Chris Rhodes both talk openly about their dreams of fighting across the world, just before they take the ring on a recent Friday More.. night at the Dunn-Marquette Rec Center in south St. Louis. Rhodes was readying for his first real bout and talks about his nerves, while Hill, who's already had 33 fights, shows off his repertoire of punches, smiling the whole time.