Earlscourt

George trained here at age 12. (1949 or 1951)

Stillman’s gym

George trained here age 21 for match in Madison Square Gardens with Pat McMurtry. (1958)

In 1919, Ingber was invited by millionaires Alpheus Geer and Hiram Mallison to manage Stillman’s Gym. When Ingber came along, the gym was actually named the Marshall Stillman Athletic Club. In the late 1920s, the gym changed its name. Patrons used to think Ingber’s last name was Stillman; because of this, they greeted him as Mr. Stillman. Stillman, described as moody and acid-tonged, among other things, by boxing historians and writers, disliked having to correct everyone who called him Mr. Stillman, so eventually he changed his name legally from Louis Ingber to Lou Stillman.

lansdowne athletic club

At age 29 (1966) George trained here for his Ali match and for many years.

Due to the excitement that boxing fans had over this match, every time Chuvalo worked out, the gym was packed. He charged 50 cents per person and donated all of those proceeds to charity. A true champion and gym.

grossingers Training camp®

George trained here age 29 (1966) and said that he loved training at Grossinger’s. There was golf, swimming, and the food was good too. 

Grossingers was by far the most important athletic enterprise, however, is the training establishment for prize-fighters, set up in a remote corner of the 700-acre barony. Seven world’s champions, from Barney Ross to Rocky Marciano, have prepared for their work at Grossinger’s, and in the process helped to make Grossinger’s internationally known.

sully’s gym

Sully’s is the last gym George trained at. No a/c and no showers. Pure boxing gym, smelled like sweat. It’s still operating today but in a new location.

There are still vids of George lifting online as of 2003, and he was reputed to have had a 450+ bench in the 1970s and a bench in the mid 300s in his 70s.  A total gymhog from every account, George still trained like a bodybuilder who boxes even today, as he’s well known for being insanely strong without being any kind of a showoff where he currently trains. The gym where Chuvalo trained was perhaps the oldest in Canada, having had its start as the Toronto Athletic Club in the 1880s and then transformed into a boxing-centric gym in the early 1900s by an owner who was an aspiring professional, Chuvalo trained at Sully’s Boxing gym alongside the Rock’s dad, Rocky Johnson, and other wrestlers from Stampede Wrestling.

Age 7 –he saw Ring Magazine and age 9 his mom finally relented and purchased the gloves for him.

he would eat the Wheaties cereal and there were tips inside cards about boxing (Joe Louis, etc) and he got tips on how to box. 

He wanted to look like the guys in the magazine.

When in training for a fight, Chuvalo would:

• Get up at 5am for a 45 minute run, after which he would
• Go back to bed until 11am, when he’d eat his breakfast
• At about 2pm he would go to the gym, where he would punch the heavy bag for stamina, the speed bag for co-ordination, exercise on a bicycle and skip rope
• He would also shadow-box and have a medicine ball thrown at his stomach