The Detroit Recreation Center has been closed for several years now, Kronk was just a very small gym in the basement of the rec center that was still running. Like many buildings in the Detroit area it was falling into ruin and the city government is a joke and don't care, if you have ever been to detroit you would know the only nice area is downtown and right on the outskirts of downtowm where the Illitch family from Little Ceasers fame and the Detroit Redwings and Detroit Tiger fame has invested. The city has had one decent mayor in over 30 years and that was Dennis Archer and he knew there was nothing he could do to change the mindset of the people and the city around so he ran from the city and now we have Kwame Kilpatrick as mayor who is a total joke with a lame duck city council who could care less about the city and think of only lining their pockets. The city is known world wide for it's crime rate and one of the things that saved many kids from that fate was the Recreation Center along with Kronk and they let it fall apart. Stallone was just here yesterday for a preview of his new Rocky movie with a $100 a plate dinner set for saving the Kronk gym, Kronk is just a small part of the rec center and no mention of saving the biggest part of it, just the basement gym. You can't save a basement and let the structure above it fall apart. Kronk has a lot of history known world wide but thats what it is now, History. The rec center and Kronk is owned by the city, not Stewart, it's just where he did his business and trained many champions, blame the city for it's demise not Emanual Stewart.

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