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REDWOOD CITY, California ( KPIX ) -- Some gyms offer more than just fitness. They can also provide a way forward, and for professional fighter Victor Pasillas, Undisputed Boxing Gym has done exactly that.

Pasillas said the gym, based in Redwood City, changed his life so profoundly that he left his old life in East Los Angeles behind to start anew with his coach, Brian Schwartz.

"This is the gym that brought me from Los Angeles to the Bay Area."

Moving from Southern California to the Bay Area shifted the entire trajectory of his life. Growing up surrounded by gang violence, Pasillas said the Bay Area taught him how to thrive despite hardship.

"It's been very, very hard times, you know. Moments where we had to live in very uncomfortable circumstanc

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