Tim Adams didn’t know he was a boxing champ’s son until a stranger turned up at his house and began telling stories. “I’m sitting there sucking all this in and in at the time, I’m telling myself, ‘I think I want to be a Golden Gloves champion.’”
Tim Adams said he didn’t know he was a boxing champ’s son until a stranger turned up at his house and began telling stories.
Around the same time Adams was becoming a king in the ring, flyweight Frank Smith was making his own history. In 1973, Smith won the Chicago Golden Gloves flyweight title. In 1974, he won the bantamweight title. And in 1975, as a 125-pound 18-year-old, he managed an unprecedented feat. Smith credits boxing — and the men who coached him — for keeping him on the straight and narrow when he began boxing at age 11.
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