Steve Slama

I started my fitness journey at an early age. I was 14 when I first stepped into a gym, up to this point I grew up on the street. I was from a very violent home, my stepfather was an alcoholic and abusive. I had grown up learning to survive, we moved anytime the school officials would start to recognize what was going on. I had no direction, did not care, I was very angry at the world. I thought I would be dead by the time I was 18. The first time I stepped into Horton's Gym gym was the first time I knew where I belonged. Duluth boxing promoter Chuck Horton welcomed me and taught me how to box and served as a role model to me. I want to pay it forward.