Kris Lopez’s Oakland-based boxing gym is aiming to repair damages from an incident that occurred on New Year’s Eve.
Lopez saw the front door to his Seminary Avenue-based gym destroyed when a stolen car rammed through it. The goal has become to raise funds to pay the trainers for the next two months, and so they have set up a GoFundMe page. The ring was damaged as well; the gym has been boarded up as they look to raise funds to repair the location.
“I see it as a hard reset button,” said Lopez, who recently spoke to BoxingScene about his son David, a promising welterweight. “I see the silver lining in this.”…