On the corner of Santa Monica Blvd and Vine Avenue in Hollywood sits a boxing institution: Freddie Roach’s Wild Card Boxing Club. Since 1995 fighters of all skill sets have crowded into the gym run by Roach, a Hall of Fame trainer. World champions like Manny Pacquiao and Miguel Cotto have called Wild Card home, joined by weekend warriors who pay the $5 daily rate. Save for a handful of holidays, the gym is always open. On Monday, Wild Card, by order of the city of Los Angeles, closed its doors until March 31.
Over the last week, as the coronavirus spread across the U.