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Article: After 43 years, boxing coach is forced from ring Boys Club cites risk of injury, lawsuits
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 24, 1991
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LYNN -- Just about everywhere he goes, people stop and shake Tony
Pavone's hand. The well-wishers say that they heard Pavone is
retiring from the boxing game. Upon hearing those words, Pavone
pulls his hand back and straightens out such talk. "I'm not
retiring," he says loudly to anyone who will listen.
Pavone, 78, has been told that by March he will have to pack up
his boxing gear and leave the Lynn Boys and Girls Club, where he has
been operating for the last 43 years. Roy Nagy, the Boys Club
director, was the bearer of the bad news in mid-October.
"He told me that there was some concern that someone was going
to get hurt," said Pavone, who instructs boxing at the Boys Club
three ...