USA Boxing pays tribute to the memory of iconic trainer/cut-man Jimmy Glenn

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (June 11, 2020) – Last month, sadly, boxing lost one of its most popular, respected, and beloved individuals, iconic New York City trainer/cut-man Jimmy Glenn, who died at the age of 89 due to COVID-19 complications.

Glenn moved from his native South Carolina to New York City in the 1940s, where he became a 14-2 amateur boxer, beaten in the Golden Gloves by future world heavyweight champion Floyd Patterson.

As a coach, Glenn guided countless amateur boxers out of a PAL gym into the New York Golden Gloves Championships over the years.   The revered Glenn later owned the famed Times Square Boxing Gym, where Muhammad Ali trained whenever “The Greatest” fought in New York City during the 1970s.

Despite his expertise as a trainer and cut-man, Glenn may be even better known for owning and operating Jimmy’s Corner, the Times Square dive bar located on 44^th Street, for the past 47 years. Beer and whiskey were cheap and boxing fans flocked there as sort of a mecca. Anybody who has attended fights at Madison Square Garden or Barclay Center for the past half-century has probably paid homage to Jimmy’s Corner, admiring all the boxing memorabilia on the walls and, of course, talking boxing.