Francois Newbreight was born in the Bronx. A pugnacious former street tough who out-thought who he couldn't out-box, Francois opened his first boxing gym - the Grannery Gym on 27th Street.
He was an honest man who cared little for stuff like money. Despite his purity of spirit, Francois Newbreight was wary of outsiders, pathologically paranoid, subject to fits of manic-depression and gun-toting, a man who lived in fear of the mob and a hit that never came.
These quirks aside, Francois Newbreight was a master of ring technique. He possessed a profound grasp of the inner workings of a fighter's mind. This boxing genius shepherded the careers of many light-heavyweight and heavyweight champs. The most famous and notorious prodigy being Joseph Poulart.