“Have you fought before?” Tim Witherspoon exclaimed. “This isn’t your first time is it? She learns fast!” Witherspoon, a two-time heavyweight world champion and former sparring partner to Muhammad Ali, stood in the middle of a boxing ring at Fighter’s Heaven in Deer Lake. The two punch mitts on his hands were being aimed at by an eighth-grade student, while her classmates and teachers watched from outside the ring, some waiting their turn. On Thursday and Friday, over 200 students and faculty fr

Fighter's Heaven: Muhammad Ali's former training camp is a museum nestled in the quiet rolling hills near Deer Lake, Pennsylvania. Its mission is to educate about Ali's legacy. | Localish