Bobby Stewart was featured speaker at a boxing club meeting last month at Gloversville’s Eccentric Club. Stewart, from Tribes Hill, won the National Golden Gloves Tournament as a light heavyweight in 1974, beating Mike Dokes in Denver, Colorado. His amateur record was 45 wins and 5 losses. Stewart turned professional after the 1974 Golden Gloves Tournament and won 13 of his 16 fights.

Some years later Stewart was a counselor at what was then Tryon reform school in Perth. Stewart introduced inmate Mike Tyson to boxing and also introduced Tyson to trainer Cus D’Amato in Catskill. Tyson went on to a colorful and controversial career including a stint as heavyweight boxing champ.

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