THE YORK HALL: WILL BOXING BE BACK?
Will boxing fans return to York Hall? The York Hall, Bethnal Green’s 1929, iconic community leisure centre and (most importantly if you’re reading this) boxing venue, is closed indefinitely. Tower Hamlets Council have said it may not reopen until next year after Legionella bacteria was found in the water supply and asbestos around some of the pipework. There is serious fear in the boxing and no doubt local community, that it simply will not open again. Facing a mammoth bill of almost a million pounds to resolve the crumbling infrastructure it is easy to see why there is scepticism in whether we’ll see our sport there again. York Hall’s website has essentially zero helpful information, and it isn’t a mental hop, skip and a jump to see Tower Hamlets cashing in on the site and it being redeveloped as ghastly, overpriced flats that’ll not come close to lasting as long as The York Hall has. Boxing has seen many a famous fighter feature on bills in the cauldron of atmosphere the Hall creates...
