They moved the couches and chairs and coffee table. They rearranged the family living room, the brothers and the neighborhood kids, so that when it was time to wail on one another, it would resemble something close to the impromptu boxing ring they believed it to be. When it was all set and the room looked ready to host another after-school rumble, that’s when they’d slip on their boxing gloves and fire away.
Ramsey Nijem was 11, determined to find a way to beat his older brother, Joe, but instead of holding bragging rights for the day, Ramsey got dropped.