Seven of the eight Beijing-bound British boxers gathered at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield today to perform their final media duties before heading out to the Olympic Village on Monday.
This year’s Olympic GB boxing team heading to the Beijing Olympics are set to challenge for major honours following a ringing endorsement from Head Coach Terry Edwards.
Portobello in Edinburgh hosted the cream of British Youth boxing in the championships for boxers born in 1990 and 1991. These championships are a good indicator of the future of amateur boxing in the British Isles, and on this showing England look set for a bright future, Wales too had their fair share of finalists. However, the host nation Scotland did not feature as much as they would have liked considering they were at home.
Opening up the third day of the tournament for GB was Tom Stalker at 60kg who was up against the orthodox Spaniard Juan Carlos Lopez. Tom started well, using his south paw lead opening up the Spaniard through his rear hand to take a 5 : 0 lead at the end of the first.
Day Two started in the same way that Day One finished, with 81kg GB Olympian Tony 'Jaffa' Jeffries scoring a sensational knockout with a body shot after 55 seconds against the young Polish boxer Damian Kosmider.
John Hart and his select team from the North West of England made a return to the capital of the Highlands in Inverness at the 4 star “Drumossie Hotel” for a match against a Northern District select.
GB Olympic prospect Bradley Saunders gave his chances and confidence for Beijing a massive boost when he won the gold medal at the inaugural AIBA President's Cup.
Olympic hopeful Bradley Saunders has boosted his chances of medaling in Beijing by beating the 2004 64kg Olympic gold medalist Manus Bookmaking of Thailand in the Semi-Finals of the AIBA President's cup in Chinese Taipei today.
Despite training hard for his professional debut, Dudley middleweight Jamie Ball will be paying close attention to the Royal Navy Junior ABA Championship Finals that take place at Everton Park Leisure Centre this weekend.