When local artist Rene “Fame” Montalvo came to the Ring of Champions gym in Manchester to paint a mural, the subject, Mykquan Williams, had a request. “Mykie asked him to put the Hartford skyline behind it,” Paul Cichon says, “and I asked him, why? He said, ‘I want to feel like the whole city is behind me.` ... You know, the kid loves Hartford.” Advertisement As Williams and his boxing career come to maturity, arrive at a crossroads, he has begun to think more about the impact he can have on his hometown, a city with a long boxing tradition, that can always use a champion, a source of pride. “It`s crazy. I`ve been thinking about it a lot,” Williams says. “I hope that the youth, whoever`s...
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