Ali: Las Vegas Legacy is made possible in part by Jaguar Land Rover Las Vegas and Desert Valley Audiology.

♪♪♪ To me boxing is more of a mental thing than a physical thing.

-Boxing is more like an art form.

Each punch is like a perfectly planned stroke, really.

-I'm hoping I can make a career out of this.

-If there's like street fights and fights in general, I can help people.

-My whole family does it.

♪♪♪ (Pat Barry) Boxing is a unique sport.

I just love everything about it.

I mean, I love the physical conditioning.

I really do love the camaraderie you build up with the different boxers in the gym.

You go watch them compete, they go watch you compete.

And then during the week, you beat the heck out of each other.

Boxing just teaches a whole bunch of life skills, I think, that you can't get from any other sport.

(Joseph) Basically, it's making me more mature.

I feel like doing training every day, coming to the gym every day, waking up on time.

This has been helping me a lot improving my mental health.

(Christian) That consistency is really going to, as an adult, make sure that I'm always pushing myself forward because there's days where I don't want to come here, but I come here anyways because I always just want to get better.

(Luis) This is a part of me because I used to like not come outside.

And now that I'm here, I come outside, I do work, I do exercise and that's making me lose weight.

(Flavio) You have a lot of support behind you.

Everybody just wants to see you the best, so I love the encouragement of being here.

They're so affordable that some other gyms are charging 100 plus a trainer.

Right here they provide that, so it's a big difference.

♪♪♪ In 1980 I was watching a Rocky movie, and Dawn came in the room and said you're watching that again?

I said, you know, it's a good movie.

She says why don't you just open a gym?

It would be good for a lot of reasons.

The kids need something here in the community, she said, and you love boxing and it will give you something to do when you're not at work and get you out of my hair and I don't have to keep watching the Rocky movies.

♪♪♪ When he won the Olympics in Rome, he was so flamboyant and he gave hope to so many people, that if you believe in yourself, you can accomplish it.

-I know Muhammad Ali, he was a really good heavyweight fighter back in the day.

He was really accentuated or whatever for his fighting style.

I knew he didn't really keep his guard up like most people.

He liked to go loose, move his arms around and, you know, kind of toy with his opponents, whatever, get in their head and all that stuff.

-I seen his fights on YouTube, but I really wish I could have seen him in person.

One of the best heavyweight fighters I know.

He got hands; he's got some hands.

Yeah, he's a great fighter.

I want to be in the ring just like him.

-He used to be one of the great boxers.

Even though he was one of the best, he still lost.

He taught me never to give up.

♪♪♪ (Richard Steele) We have kids that don't know where they want to go or what they want to do so they become at-risk, getting in trouble in the neighborhoods and everything.

We have kids that come to the gym five days a week, six days a week, and this is all they want to do because they found something that they love.

They found something that they get respect from other people by doing.

They stay in the gym, they stay in school.

It helps the whole community to be a better place, a better city.

♪♪♪ I have a class for senior citizens, you know, called the Parkinson's class for people that have Parkinson's.

I teach them on Mondays and Wednesdays.

♪♪♪ Today it's not what it used to be.

The pandemic really hurt us in boxing when we had to close these gyms down and the kids couldn't come to the gym and work out but we're on our way back.

-I'm an eternal optimist.

I look back and I see a heyday in the '80s and '90s, and it kind of simmered down.

It's on a plateau that it never would have been at had it not been for that period of Muhammad Ali.

♪♪♪ Ali: Las Vegas Legacy is made possible in part by Jaguar Land Rover Las Vegas and Desert Valley Audiology.