NOT FINISHED YET ‘Bones’ Adams’ life outside the ring
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hen you become a pro boxer at 15 years old, win a World Boxing Association Championship at 26 years old, and end your career with a 447-4 record, where do you go from there? Clarence “Bones” Adams, the owner of the Bones Adams Boxing Gym, can finally answer that question. When we first met Adams in the May/ June 2001 issue, he had just won the WBA super bantamweight championship. The Henderson, Kentucky, native later opened his private gym in 2008 in Las Vegas and officially retired from boxing in February 2010. For the past five years, he has used his life and experience to train the next generation of boxers. “Nobody could be any lower than I was and pretty much any higher,” he says. “Every situation in life I’ve gone through, and
it’s good to be here for these young men and to mentor them.” Adams trained both International Boxing Federation mini-flyweight champion Dee-jay Kriel and World Boxing Organization bantamweight champion Johnriel Casimero, coaching them to win their respective titles in 2019. He recently signed Shane Mosley Jr., son of world champion FIGHT TO WIN Clarence “Bones” Adams came out Shane “Sugar” Mosley. of Henderson, Kentucky, to capture a World Boxing “I love boxing. I want to always be around Association super bantamweight championship in boxing one way or another, promoting, man- 2001. Now, he trains the next generation of boxers aging, training,” says Adams. “Even with all at his Las Vegas facility. “He’s got a great rags-to-riches story, the stuff I’ve accomplished, I’m not done.” For those who have known him since and he’s truly deserving of all the opportuthe beginning, such as fellow Indiana Box- nities he’s created,” says Childers, an Evansing Hall of Famer (both inducted in 2019) ville native. “He’s just a genuine, nice guy and former World Boxing Association and I’m happy that he’s done so well.” — DALLAS CARTER Prospect of the Year in 1997 Jen Childers, GLOVES UP instagram.com/bones.adams.boxing/ Adams’ success is not surprising.
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