{"id":124637,"date":"2025-09-07T03:29:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T03:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/124637\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T03:29:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T03:29:07","slug":"community-leaders-promote-boxing-as-alternative-to-youth-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/124637\/","title":{"rendered":"Community leaders promote boxing as alternative to youth violence"},"content":{"rendered":"

CINCINNATI \u2014 Youth violence has been at the top of many people’s minds in Cincinnati lately. In fact, it’s something we’ve tried to seek solutions for through community conversations<\/a>. <\/p>\n

On Saturday at Cincinnati Fitness & Boxing, the main message from adults to kids was to put the gloves up and the guns down.<\/p>\n

The event was organized by Congressman Greg Landsman and community partners in an effort to address youth violence.<\/p>\n

“It’s another thing they can do that’s good to avoid some of the bad stuff,” Landsman said.<\/p>\n

Landsman said he hopes the event can teach kids that being in the gym is a healthy outlet for their frustrations in life.<\/p>\n

Hear why Landsman and others feel boxing can help save young lives in the video below:<\/p>\n

Cincinnati gym hosts event to address youth violence through boxing<\/p>\n

He also hopes parents understand that kids sometimes need to be pushed toward those healthy activities.<\/p>\n

“For parents, I think it’s really just helping kids find as many different things they might get into,” Landsman said.<\/p>\n

Kids also got to learn from some of the best, including former Olympic boxer and Cincinnati native Rau’shee Warren.<\/p>\n

Warren said boxing can teach life lessons inside and outside the ropes.<\/p>\n

“We teach them to learn how to sacrifice certain things when it comes to life, avoid certain things and just get prepared to be a young adult,” Warren said.<\/p>\n

Jeff Perry, the owner of Cincinnati Fitness & Boxing, said boxing and being active prevent kids from doing the wrong thing.<\/p>\n

“Kids who come in the gym, don’t feel the need to fight outside the gym,” Perry said.<\/p>\n

He said the dedication and focus that kids put toward boxing takes away their desire to act up.<\/p>\n

Perry said he understands some parents may worry about kids getting hurt. But he said he encourages everyone to give it a chance.<\/p>\n

“Don’t be afraid to get your kid in the gym,” Perry said. “The positive benefits of it, the things they’ll learn, the self-confidence they’ll have so outweigh the risks of anybody getting hurt.”<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CINCINNATI \u2014 Youth violence has been at the top of many people’s minds in Cincinnati lately. In fact,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,53585,53586,85,53587],"class_list":{"0":"post-124637","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-boxing","11":"tag-cincinnati-news","12":"tag-finding-solutions","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-wcpo"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}