Boxing Legend Jimmy Glenn Dies From The Coronavirus

Famed bar owner and boxing legend, Jimmy Glenn was pronounced dead on Thursday from complications of the coronavirus.

Jimmy Glenn was a boxing trainer and owner of the Timed Square bar Jimmy’s Corner. Glenn’s family shared that he lost the battle against the coronavirus this Thursday.

“A legend of boxing has heard his final bell,” World Boxing Council president Mauricio Sulaiman said on Twitter in a tribute to “such a great human being.”

A legend of boxing has heard his final bell. Jimmy Glenn has passed at 90 years of age. One of the first things I will do, whenever it is possible , will be to visit Jimmy’s corner in New York City and pay tribute to such a great human being pic.twitter.com/pwquTByeAc

— Mauricio Sulaiman (@wbcmoro) May 7, 2020

The former trainer and gym owner – who had once trained Muhammad Ali – was hospitalized and suffered from COVID-19 since mid April, his family told The Post.

“He has lived an incredible life, been around some of the most famous and influential people in history. He was never star-struck, but he got to be a part of history,” Glenn’s son Adam, 39, said.

“He really built something for himself and his family — he built a legacy and a name that will be remembered.”

Glenn was a father of seven. He was battling the virus for a few weeks and succumbed to it at 5:30 am on Thursday at the hospital, with Adam at this side.

Jimmy is a South Carolina native that moved to New York City in the 1940s. He made his own brief attempts in the ring as an amateur – most notably against soon to be heavyweight champion Floyd Patterson. Glenn’s amateur record was 14-2, but he realized he was a better teacher than fighter.

Glenn started training boxing in Harlem and set up the famed Times Square Boxing Gym in the ‘70s, where he trained Muhammad Ali whenever he was in town.
For some, he was best known for greeting customers at his Times Square hang-out, which was plastered with boxing memorabilia and was a regular stop for fighters visiting the city.

Jimmy’s Corner drew in crowds of tourists and midtown workers. The bar was known for a sign behind the bar that declared the discussion of politics to be off-limits. Glenn strictly enforced this rule.

One of his fighters who knew Glenn, Monte Barrett, said Thursday that he had “looked to him as my father.”

“Today we lost one of the best human beings in the world,” he said in a moving Instagram tribute.

 

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Today we lost one of the best human beings in the world Jimmy Glenn My memorial to Jimmy Glenn Jimmy Glenn was one of a kind! To me he was my trainer,my cut man,my supporter,my father and my friend and most of all he believed in me and supported me throughout my whole career. Adam and I are have been communicating everyday for the past month on Jimmy’s progress and we thought he would come out of this. But God’s plan and purpose is always bigger and better then we’ll ever know. I love you Jimmy? Jimmy in I spent a lot of personal one on one time and I looked to him as my father. He believed in me,helped me, and encouraged me throughout half of my life and I’m grateful to have shared the same space with him. He believed in me when I doubted myself in the Tye Fields fight in training camp and gave me the best advice when I would come to him for anything. And he gave me the most inspirational pep talk to help me get through my concerns and I stopped Fields in one minute in the first round. But most of all outside of boxing sharing his energy and staying at his bar until closing and seeing what a real man does. He loved his wife,his children,his friends and his business. He’s strong yet gentle,he’s passive but don’t take any crap,he was quiet but a fighter and most of all he was a very loving and generous man with everyone he came in contact with. I’m grateful and honored to have known him and spent the time we spent together since 1992. Jimmy Glenn will be missed and love by the entire world. He was the best loving human being I’ve ever known and was loved by every single person that he knew. Today we lost a legend in our boxing world and in this world,IRREPLACEABLE Salute Jimmy Glenn ?? #JimmyGlenn #Greatman #lovedandadored #missedbutneverforgotten #BVG #BarrettVIPGroup

A post shared by Monte Barrett / NYBHOF2019 (@bvg_the_ambassador) on May 7, 2020 at 7:33am PDT

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