now from the game of baseball to The Game of Life a documentary highlighting Philadelphia's Rich history of boxing Legends premieres this weekend as part of the Philadelphia film festival it's called the executioners we all had a chance the award-winning documentary tells the personal story of the filmmaker and well-known comedian Dannon green the Philly Hometown Legend for many this was the passageway to opportunity through box when you hit this door you know you was like okay you know what let
's do it Dannon green did it as a 14 year old member of the Philadelphia boxing club known as the executioners people don't understand what the gym did for us all right you know what I mean as men as young kids and in my short two years there with you guys it it carried on for my whole life so much so he now lives in Los Angeles he's a filmmaker and his latest project a Philadelphia story called The executioners we all had a chance it's a hot and I'm not saying it because it's me but I really fe
el it's one of the best boxing documentaries ever done footage stories and interviews from days gone by a historical perspective centering around a little known West Philadelphia boxing gym that made a big difference in the lives of many young men keeping them out of Harm's Way because they belonged here they got a safe passage Frank Taylor and the late Marvin Tucci Gordon ran the gym located on the corner of 60th and Vine you know how the streets were back and then there was a lot of gangs we h
ad a lot of guys come from Southwest they had to walk up here or ride the bus and they had safe passage because they were executions and now their stories their triumphs and tragedies are being told and documented by one of their own a man who says what happened back then can certainly relate to what's going on today I'm a foster kid I grew up hard but just what we learned here alone was enough for us to you know just move to a different direction and more than enough for him to share his past w
ith the present in hopes of guiding others to a brighter future this is where it started you know what I mean like if I didn't have this I don't know where I would have been and the hometown premiere of the documentary is this Saturday at 4 at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts on North Broad Street many of the boxing Legends featured in the film will be there as well and we have more information on where to get tickets on cbsphiladelphia.com I hope you can check out the entire Philadelphia f
ilm festival one of the best in the entire country
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