Mike Lacche Boxing Magazine: March, 2013

Social media and family connections: Our story is same as many, and exciting because social media has enabled Mike Lacche's family to unite after some 50 years. Mike Lacche's older brother Nick Lacche spent most of his life in Pennsylvania and had an amazing daughter and subsequently many children that are now reunited under the Lacche family. Mike would have been thrilled.

Count down to 100: T-minus 11 months until the centennial celebration of Mike Lacche's birth. It will also be a celebration of his achievement as a past U.S. Army base boxing champion. Stay tune for more details.




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When reflecting on his boxing career, Mike Lacche stressed the importance of boxing being a thinking sport; Mike compared boxing with chess except "when the king fell someone would get really hurt."

All of the Army athletes competing for the title were in good shape -- eight hours a day PT training in courses that most civilian athletes today would gladly sit out or only attempt one portion.

Part of Mike's training involved innovative uses of sand -- Fort Kamehameha was a short run from the Pacific Ocean and sandy beaches offered a good venue to train legs and core. Mike also practiced punching into sand to harden and develop muscles that his opponents may otherwise ignore.

Mike was a confident boxer but always approached each bout with the assumption his opponents were bigger, stronger and better. That 'me versus the world' attitude kept Mike alive during his 1942 title run, as well as, throughout World War II