Kronk's Gym Returns to Detroit - Hour Detroit Magazine

Kronk's Gym Returns to Detroit - Hour Detroit Magazine

Although perennial heavyweight champion Joe “The Brown Bomber” Louis had positioned Detroit as one of the nation’s boxing capitals in the late 1930s, a half-century later another boxer brought the city a different kind of boxing fame. Emanuel Steward, a former national Golden Gloves bantamweight champion, would go on to become a coach, a mentor, and finally owner of Kronk Gym, where he produced Olympic medalists and professional champions. Young…