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Reporter: Jordan Bontke

A boxing gym is looking for a new home after a huge fire damaged their building and nearly everything around it.

On Saturday, plumes of smoke could be seen for miles from a fire at a landfill recycling near 7th Avenue and Interstate 17.

At the center of it were piles of tires that sat right next to an old slaughterhouse converted into a boxing gym.

Mike Bojorquez owns Walt Hoskins Boxing Gym. The non-profit is named after his mentor and coach who showed him how to fight in the ring and fight for his community by running a boxing program for underserved youth.

“If it wasn’t for boxing I probably wouldn’t have ever left the state of Arizona,” said Bojorquez.

The gym doesn’t charge aspiring boxers a dime to train.

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