Episode #163-Justin Blair-Founder Friday Night Fights/Church Street Boxing Gym - a podcast by Ken Lubin

Justin Blair, he has a very unique and interesting background: 

• Born and raised in Queens and Manhattan.


• Worked on a fishing boat above the arctic circle after college.


• Left college for a year to take a survival course in Kenya - stuck around Africa for a year with a book bag full of clothes - Zaire, Congo, Camaroon, etc.


• Caught cerebral malaria while there but came down with it in  Egypt - evacuated to Israel for medical care by the US embassy. Crazy story.


• Founded and operated the Church St Boxing Gym in NYC in 1997 running it until 2014. Worked with everyone - Felix Trinidad, Evander      Holyfield, Mike Tyson, Lennox Lewis, Brittney Spears - lots of celebrities.


• Founded longest running fight series in North America - Friday Night Fights, from 1997 until lFeb 2020 (Covid).


• Started broadcasting with the UFC in 2018 from the US. That same year did a test from Thailand and in 2019 did a big deal with them to broadcast a lot more.


• Once established in Thailand - we picked up rights to lots of other stuff - often going places without any contacts at all and literally just showing up. Including bringing my son to many of these initial forays.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/justin-blair-242724/

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