Sully's Gym
While it’s those big name boxers who have helped to create Sully’s legendary status in the boxing world, Sully’s real identity comes from the thousands of kids who have come there over the years because they wanted to learn to box. They were lost, they found something they were good at, they found reason. Toronto’s very own boxing gym.
No a/c and no showers. Pure boxing gym, smelled like sweat.
George Chuvalo
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.
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
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