Mom of Kronk Boxing boys learned the sport and coaches ringside

Denise Scott is raising five kids, so it goes without saying that she’s basically a superhero. 

But when her oldest child D’Monte got into boxing, she took her support for her kids a step further by learning the sport herself. You don’t see a lot of moms coaching ringside at fights, but that’s exactly what Scott does. 

“I feel like they love it,” she said. “Mikey and Monte, the two who’ve been boxing longest, know that you don’t see too many mothers being a coach. You don’t really see a lot of the mothers – it’s always the fathers. So, I feel like they think it’s even better because I’m there with them doing the thing they love.”

Scott, who lives in Redford Township, is a certified boxing coach and can be seen hitting the bags and getting in the ring with her sons at Kronk Boxing Gym in Westland. Kronk, inside the Jefferson Barns Vitality Center in Norwayne, offers free boxing and tutoring to students if they agree to do well in school and be an upstanding person outside of the gym.

For Scott’s family, training together makes the boys’ boxing pursuits feel more like a team sport and gives Scott a way to show her kids that she supports their dreams. Two of her kids don’t enjoy competing in the sport, but they are there at the gym with everyone else. 

“It’s just seeing my kids happy,” Scott said. “My youngest son, Lavell, wants to be a pro fighter. So, my thing is if I can help him make that dream come true, I’d love that. I just want them to be successful in whatever they do.”