Hand controlled the closed-circuit rights to most major fights in the area for years. He launched Joe Hand Productions, which includes a boxing gym.
Joe Hand, a former Philadelphia police officer who helped financially back Joe Frazier’s career before launching a successful closed-circuit TV business from his basement in
“He said, ‘The next thing you know I’m 30-some years old sitting at ringside on March 8, 1971, and my guy just beat Muhammad Ali for the heavyweight championship of the world,’” said Mr. Hand’s son, Joe. “He says, ‘I’m thinking to myself, how in the world did I ever get here?’” “He ended up getting COVID in the office about two weeks ago,” Mr. Hand’s son said. “We tested him and said, ‘You have COVID. You have to go home.’ He said, ‘OK. I’ll come back in a couple days.’ We said, ‘Yeah, you can’t come back until you get past this.’ Unfortunately, it got worse and we had to put him in the hospital.“Every day, he came into the office. He wasn’t just in there not doing anything. He wasn’t a figurehead, so to speak. He was involved.
Along with the closed-circuit business, Mr. Hand operated a nonprofit boxing gym that was home to many of Philadelphia’s premier fighters. The Joe Hand Gym opened in 1995 inand was used by Mike Tyson before he fought later that year at the Spectrum. The gym moved to South Philly before settling in Northern Liberties, where Bernard Hopkins trained for years. It is now located inside the company’s
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