{"id":503536,"date":"2026-02-27T18:06:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T18:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/503536\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T18:06:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T18:06:19","slug":"the-kronk-spirit-lives-on-a-knockout-visit-to-detroits-boxing-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/503536\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kronk Spirit Lives On: A Knockout Visit to Detroit\u2019s Boxing Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kronk Spirit Lives On: A Knockout Visit to Detroit\u2019s Boxing Heart<\/p>\n<p>After a \u2018heavy weight\u2019 breakfast at the Joe Louis Cafe in Detroit, WBC Cares Chair, Jill Diamond and former Olympian, Boxer Eric Kelly spent their snowbound day with our friends at the new Kronk Gym.<\/p>\n<p>There we had the pleasure of hanging with 2x World Champion Milton McCrory,\u00a0 as well as several other well known and soon to be known young boxers.<\/p>\n<p>Walking through Kronk is thrilling and the spirits of those before still resonate with each punch.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s to Manny Stewart!\u00a0 Let his\u00a0 legacy live on!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-177084\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/jill-kronk-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1512\" height=\"2016\"  \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-177086\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/jill-kronk-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2016\" height=\"1512\"  \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-177088\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/jill-kronk-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"pvc_stats_177083\" class=\"pvc_stats all  pvc_load_by_ajax_update\" data-element-id=\"177083\" style=\"\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ajax-loader-2x.gif\" border=\"0\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Kronk Spirit Lives On: A Knockout Visit to Detroit\u2019s Boxing Heart After a \u2018heavy weight\u2019 breakfast at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-503536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}