Joe and Heidi Amouta met at Uppercut Boxing Gym in 2013 and spent the next five years talking about the same idea: a gym with serious coaching and none of the intimidation. In the winter of 2018 they opened the doors on Garfield Avenue South and started building it.
What they built is a room where a complete beginner works the bags next to someone preparing to compete, and both get coached properly. Our members are a community of athletes in constant competition with themselves — not with each other, and definitely not with whoever else is in the gym that morning.
2905 Garfield Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55408
Our Founders
Co-Founder & Head Coach
A former amateur and professional boxer who took California championships in 2009. Joe trained under Freddie Roach at the Wild Card Gym in Los Angeles and took part in Manny Pacquiao's training camp — and he coaches with the standards he learned there.
Co-Founder & Coach
Heidi started boxing at 22 and competed for the 2014 National Women's Boxing Team and at the 2015 Olympic Trials. She is also a 200-hour certified yoga instructor, which shows up in how she thinks about mobility, breathing and recovery.
The Team
Every class at MBC is led by a coach, not a playlist. Between them our team covers beginners, competitors, youth, strength work and everything in between.
The quickest way to understand the gym is to stand in it. Your first class is free.
Come in, meet the coaches and try a class. No contract, no pressure.
