Young people get a fighting chance at Minneapolis boxing gym the Circle of Discipline

He knows the moment he fell in love with the sport.

He was tiny, just like the little ones — age 5, age 6 — who constantly skip around the sweat-stained blue floor of the Minneapolis garage-turned-gym known as the Circle of Discipline.

Back then, Jamal James wasn’t yet a 19-0 professional welterweight. He didn’t have the nickname “Shango,” for the African god of thunder. He wasn’t managed by one of boxing’s premier managers, Al Haymon — the same guy who works with Floyd “Money” Mayweather Jr.

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