Summary Of The Boxer By Mike Mosley

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The Boxer is about the Cross4Christ boxing gym in the Created for So Much More Worship Center in Baltimore, Md and Mike Mosley who is the head boxing coach at the gym was interviewed. Mike Mosley grew up in Baltimore and was fascinated by fighting at a young age. His cousin told him about the boxing gym that was opened in the Church. Mike Mosley was not a religious person at that point in his life. He wasn't someone thatbwent to church to praise and worship God. After a year of going to the gym, he was having personal problems that boxing wasn't helping with, so he went to a service in the Church and it changed his life. Bishop Saunders was another person that was interviewed. He has had a big impact on Mike Mosley’s life. The bishop

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