MaineLife Media visits sports teams around Maine including the Portland Boxing Club. 

Amateur boxing: Maine's boxing community teaches skills and builds camaraderie

Portland Boxing Club's Bob Russo is featured in this video starting at 12:25 in the video

Bob Russo grew up in Portland and now runs the Portland Boxing Club in Maine

Maine Life host Erin Ovalle throws some punches at the Portland Boxing Club with Lindsay Kyajohnian Francois, a past New England Golden Gloves champion. 

In her talk, Liz Leddy describes her journey as a young woman: a high school dropout and aggressive street punk who found illumination of her life's purpose and healing through the sport of boxing. She attests to her strength to walk on through the personal destruction left in the wake of substance abuse, violence and trauma, along with the boxing techniques that led her to two national championships. Through a coach and a community, her life skills and self-knowledge were groomed, resulting in a miraculous victory over the dark life of addiction, homelessness, crime and violence. 

Portland Boxing Club: Dream Makers - Honda promotional video

Fall 2013 video Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

Liz (2014) Story of Champion Boxer Liz Leddy - A troubled and homeless teen from Portland, Maine, finds salvation, peace and success when her street fighting leads to amateur boxing. 

Men and women find purpose at the Portland Boxing Club

Portland Boxing Club fighters have been doing very well in the early rounds of the USA Boxing New England boxing championships. Bobby Russo, the club's president and head coach, told us what to look for when the club hosts the tournament final on Thanksgiving weekend. 

Back in 2003, 207 found out that to a lot of young people in southern Maine, the Portland Boxing Club is a second home and the man who runs it is much more than a coach. They got to take an exclusive look into what many people over the past twelve years have come to know as a salvation.

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Bobby Russo of the Portland Boxing Club talks about the ways that the boxing club builds character and strength for Portland's youth - and about the upcoming annual boxing tournament.