{"id":518008,"date":"2026-03-06T11:09:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T11:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/518008\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T11:09:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T11:09:07","slug":"young-first-nation-boxer-finds-his-passion-thanks-to-thunder-bays-underground-gym","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/518008\/","title":{"rendered":"Young First Nation boxer finds his passion thanks to Thunder Bay&#8217;s Underground Gym"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2 hours agoNewsDuration 4:12<\/p>\n<p id=\"MainContentDescription\">The Underground Gym and Youth Centre in Thunder Bay, Ont., offers a safe space for youth to work out, learn new skills and grab a hot meal, all for free. Last month, the gym celebrated 17-year-old phenom Keenan Flett who won the historic Buckskin Gloves Boxing Tournament in B.C., which brings together Indigenous amateur boxers from across Canada to honour residential school survivors. The CBC&#8217;s Matt Fratpietro stopped by the gym earlier this week to learn more about its impact in the community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2 hours agoNewsDuration 4:12 The Underground Gym and Youth Centre in Thunder Bay, Ont., offers a safe space&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-518008","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\/518008","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=518008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}