Boxing-Centered Facility Represents Shift in Recreation

A two-ring boxing center in Macon, Ga., will mark its opening with a 24-bout tournament, though most of its regular users may never land a punch.

The boxing center, named the Bishop Frank Arena after local boxing-scene legend Frank Ray, becomes the first "specialty center" operated by the Macon-Bibb County Recreation Department. It will open Sept. 6 in the wake of the Middle Georgia Amateur Boxing Club's closing last January. Recreation director Dale Doughtery expects many boxers who used that facility to join the new Macon-Bibb United Boxing and Conditioning Club.

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