Tell the story how you got into boxing.
My father Sammy Burke was a coach, so my brother Rocky and I Grew up in the gym. My earliest memories were of the boxing gym. The first gym I remembered was the Boys Club gym in the 60's and early 70's and then the PAL gym in the mid 70's and 80's. My Dad passed away in 1984, but my family including my mother kept the PAL gym running through the 80's. My brother and I, coaching and managing fighters and my mother promoting boxing events. In the 90's the City of Las Cruces let us use the National Guard Armory which...
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