October 4, 2017
Minority & Small Business Week
A world champion in the ring, Portland boxer Steve ‘2 Pounds’
Forbes (left), is taking his expertise from the gym to a new level by
starting his own personalized boxing training business.
Turning His Sport
into a Business
World champion launches boxing studio
by Z aChary s enn
t he p ortlanD o bserver
One of Portland’s most ac-
complished athletes is opening
a specialized training studio in
his beloved Rose City. Steve “2
Pounds” Forbes, a professional
boxer who was born in Portland in
1977, is opening 2 Pounds Sports
to share his knowledge and talent
with a new generation of athletes.
“I was born here, weighing
just two pounds,” Forbes told the
Portland Observer, explaining his
iconic boxing nickname.
The hometown hero was raised
by his grandmother and began
training at north Portland’s Matt
Dishman Community Center at
the age of 10. By 1996, he landed
C ontinueD on p age 9
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