Samir McQueen is someone I have known for quite sometime now though it feels like not that long at all. Since I began visiting Bay Area boxing gyms, McQueen has always been around the scene or so it has felt. I suppose he just came to the gym one day

In front of a packed crowd at the historic 16th St station in West Oakland, CA, hometown legend middleweight Tony Hirsch (21-6-2 8KOs) defeated Taneal Goyco (8-9-1 3KOs) of Philadelphia, PA. Goyco missed weight the day before, so bad in fact Hirsch almost didn’t take the fight. Hirsch decided in