{"id":446313,"date":"2026-01-30T01:28:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T01:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/446313\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T01:28:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T01:28:12","slug":"palolo-boxing-club-prepares-to-welcome-competitors-into-the-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/446313\/","title":{"rendered":"Palolo Boxing Club prepares to welcome competitors into the ring"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Hawaii Winter Boxing Festival<\/a> kicks off this weekend, and competitors from O\u02bbahu, Hawai\u02bbi Island, Maui and Canada are ready to rumble in P\u0101lolo.<\/p>\n

Former competitive boxer Joel Kim has been the longtime coach of the Palolo Boxing Club<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Conversation stopped by the ring to speak with Kim and his assistant coach about the impact the gym has had on the P\u0101lolo community.<\/p>\n

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Joel Kim has been coaching Palolo Boxing Club since 2001.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat gives me joy and kind of a passion to come here is I see they’re becoming better people overall,” Kim said. \u201cThey get a better work ethic, which carries out in the professional life, in real world.”<\/p>\n

Kim said the boxing club has provided young people in P\u0101lolo with safe community programs, leading to other opportunities both inside and outside the ring.<\/p>\n

He noted that in the past, local boxers had few chances to compete each year. Now, with more tournaments available, young athletes are gaining more competition experience.<\/p>\n

“I think that helps the kids develop and prepares them better for the bigger stage, like the national, regional tournaments,” he said.<\/p>\n

Now in its fifth year, the event will take place at the Palolo Boxing Gym on Jan. 31 at 4 p.m. For more information about the event, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This story aired on\u00a0The Conversation<\/a>\u00a0on Jan. 29, 2026. The Conversation airs weekdays at 11 a.m. Hannah Ka\u02bbiulani Coburn adapted this story for the web.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Hawaii Winter Boxing Festival kicks off this weekend, and competitors from O\u02bbahu, Hawai\u02bbi Island, Maui and Canada…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":446314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-446313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446313","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=446313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}