Security guard Jack Welson (26), a Brazilian champion aiming at a South American title, is a role model to the young boxers at Garrido's gym. Garrido's boxing gym is located under a viaduct in a quarter with one of the highest rates of homelessness in the city. The fighters are people who survive in difficult conditions, often without having a place to live, but believing that boxing is a way towards a more dignified life.

Garrido's boxing gym is located under a viaduct in a quarter with one of the highest rates of homelessness in the city. The fighters are people who survive in difficult conditions, often without having a place to live, but believing that boxing is a way towards a more dignified life.

Training methods are not always conventional. Jaílton (19) pummels an improvised punch-bag, while a friend scales a rope tied to the viaduct. Garrido's boxing gym is located under a viaduct in a quarter with one of the highest rates of homelessness in the city. The fighters are people who survive in difficult conditions, often without having a place to live, but believing that boxing is a way towards a more dignified life.

Garrido's boxing gym is located under a viaduct in a quarter with one of the highest rates of homelessness in the city. The fighters are people who survive in difficult conditions, often without having a place to live, but believing that boxing is a way towards a more dignified life.

Garrido's boxing gym is located under a viaduct in a quarter with one of the highest rates of homelessness in the city. The fighters are people who survive in difficult conditions, often without having a place to live, but believing that boxing is a way towards a more dignified life.

Garrido (50) lives alone beneath the viaduct beside his gym. Garrido's boxing gym is located under a viaduct in a quarter with one of the highest rates of homelessness in the city. The fighters are people who survive in difficult conditions, often without having a place to live, but believing that boxing is a way towards a more dignified life.

Garrido's boxing gym is located under a viaduct in a quarter with one of the highest rates of homelessness in the city. The fighters are people who survive in difficult conditions, often without having a place to live, but believing that boxing is a way towards a more dignified life.

Jaílton gives an interview before the second professional fight of his career, 250km from São Paulo. Garrido's boxing gym is located under a viaduct in a quarter with one of the highest rates of homelessness in the city. The fighters are people who survive in difficult conditions, often without having a place to live, but believing that boxing is a way towards a more dignified life.

Garrido's boxing gym is located under a viaduct in a quarter with one of the highest rates of homelessness in the city. The fighters are people who survive in difficult conditions, often without having a place to live, but believing that boxing is a way towards a more dignified life.

Garrido's boxing gym is located under a viaduct in a quarter with one of the highest rates of homelessness in the city. The fighters are people who survive in difficult conditions, often without having a place to live, but believing that boxing is a way towards a more dignified life.

Garrido's boxing gym is located under a viaduct in a quarter with one of the highest rates of homelessness in the city. The fighters are people who survive in difficult conditions, often without having a place to live, but believing that boxing is a way towards a more dignified life.

Garrido's boxing gym is located under a viaduct in a quarter with one of the highest rates of homelessness in the city. The fighters are people who survive in difficult conditions, often without having a place to live, but believing that boxing is a way towards a more dignified life.

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