"Good, Vito, good!" says boxing teacher Joey DeMalavez to Vito Cosmo as he practices punching.
Cosmo is training at DeMalavez's gym in the Manayunk section of Philadelphia. But this isn't Cosmo's first rodeo.
"When you're born with a name like Vito Cosmo, and you're raised in Central Bucks County, you know, you have to learn how to fight," he says. "It's old hat."
But these days, Cosmo is not fighting schoolyard bullies — he's up against a different opponent. Back in 2012, he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.
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