Paul McIlvenny, 44, trains young boxers, including his own children, at the club.<\/p>\n
He explained it brought families together in the area.<\/p>\n
“It’s a network in here – the mums and dads – we’re in a WhatsApp group. We share text messages if one of the kids isn’t turning up. <\/p>\n
“We’d be so sad to lose it.”<\/p>\n
McIlvenny grew up with Hatton and sometimes visited his home on the nearby Hattersley estate.<\/p>\n
He said they attended the gym in their pre-teenage years.<\/p>\n
Hatton, who died in September, remains an inspiration for many people in Hyde, said McIlvenny.<\/p>\n
“His roots are here – he was born and bred here and he started his amateur career here..<\/p>\n
“You ask the kids – that’s why they love coming to this gym.”<\/p>\n
One of them, 16-year-old Oscar, said going to the gym was his main hobby.<\/p>\n
“I spend all my time in the week here,” he told the BBC. “It keeps me out of trouble, as well as fit and happy.”<\/p>\n
Tyler Daulby, 23, added: “If you’re struggling with your mental health or struggling at home, you’ve got this place to come to. It helps massively.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul McIlvenny, 44, trains young boxers, including his own children, at the club. He explained it brought families…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-405424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}