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Homer Gibbins Boxing Gym

Homer Gibbins Boxing Gym

Gym Contains Many Heavy Bags

Gym Contains Many Heavy Bags

The Homer Gibbins Boxing Gym is a boxing gym in Zebulon, Georgia. The motto of the gym is "We want to take the 30 years of knowledge we learned in boxing and teach it to those who want to learn. We teach self-defense weight loss". The gym is open two days a week. The owner of the gym is former professional boxing champion Homer Gibbins.[12]

The gym contains a regulation boxing ring, heavy bags, speed bags, cardio equipment and a place to practice footwork and do punch drills.

About The Owner

Amateur Boxing Career

Gibbins with President Trump

Gibbins with President Trump

Homer Gibbins is a 2015-2016 Griffin/Spalding Athletic Hall of Fame inductee.

Gibbins began boxing at the age of six and he competed as an amateur boxer from 1976 to 1990.

He compiled an amateur record of 226 wins, 23 losses, with 1 no contest and he scored over 100 ko's.

He won fifteen Georgia State Golden Gloves Titles, three Georgia State Silver Gloves Titles and two Regional Silver Gloves Titles.

He received The Best Boxer Award in the State Golden Gloves and The Best Boxer Award in the Regional Golden Gloves.

He won a bronze medal in the 1988 Eastern Olympic Trials.

Professional Boxing Career

He boxed professionally from 1990 to 2007.

He finished with 44 wins, 16 losses, with 31 ko's.

In 1994, he beat 1988 U.S.

Olympian Todd Foster. He went the distance with the legendary Héctor Camacho. Gibbins held the World Boxing Federation junior welterweight world title. On June 17, 2006 Homer captured the IBU International Boxing Union world welterweight championship by knocking out the champion Chad Broussard. Homer has now been willing to admit as of recently that he lied and boxed against better judgement missing the odontal process. This is a rare condition that could have paralyzed him. Homer is an accomplished artist who won the National Art Symposium in the eleventh grade in 1988.

On Social Media

  • It is on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/homergibbinsboxing/

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