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In My Corner
Producer/Director: Ricki Stern
Genre: Documentary
Program Length: 1 Episode/60 Minutes
Broadcast Date: June 22, 1999
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For 30 years, Luis Camacho has run a community boxing gym behind a deserted grocery store in New York City’s South Bronx, where young men learn the skills they need to win in the ring and in life. In a neighborhood better known for quick deals and short lives, the Bronxchester Boxing Club is a proving ground and a sanctuary, a home away from home where trainers become surrogate fathers who teach not just jabs and right crosses but discipline, self-esteem and respect.

IN MY CORNER centers on 15-year-old Joey Rios (who won the Golden Gloves in April, 1999), an amateur boxing phenomenon battling family problems as he trains for the Junior Olympics, and 13-year-old José Suarez, a newcomer to the gym who shows drive and promise, but whose ties to the mean streets threaten his chances to succeed in the ring. Faced with the same adolescent temptations that can plague teenagers everywhere, the two young boxers struggle to stay focused, spurred on by the tough love of their mentors, Camacho and his former trainee, Angel Alejandro.

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