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Re: amateur boxing
Posted: 01 Mar 2011, 18:49
by Tommy Gunn13
I rermember late 80s early 90s in my area we used to have a Norfolk championship winners used to go thru to eastern counties&box the suffolk,mid anglia&essex champs poss two fights in 1 night there..if they won that then face the winner of the.home.midland or southen counties,if eastern met southern they would face the winners of home or midlands counties for a place in the old english semis....Going back to where i started the county finals Norfolks there used to be maybe 3 or 4 boxers a weight apart from the lower&top weights&the county finals used to be a big night on the own.. i got invited to the last norfolk championships&there was 2fights all the other weight were byes....Bring back the George Wimpey days
Re: amateur boxing
Posted: 01 Mar 2011, 19:10
by Tommy Gunn13
I remember in 1988 when Johnny Armour&Mick Driscoll beat Barry Trainor&Mark Atkin in the eastern-southern counties stage...Are top boxer Gavin Barker stopped Peter Hopcraft oh the memories
Re: amateur boxing
Posted: 01 Mar 2011, 19:22
by Tommy Gunn13
billy bessey wrote:Tommy Gunn13 wrote:I remember in 1988 when Johnny Armour&Mick Driscoll beat Barry Trainor&Mark Atkin in the eastern-southern counties stage...Are top boxer Gavin Barker stopped Peter Hopcraft oh the memories
mickey driscoll used to box for parade a.b.c i just about remember him good fighter
p.s god you must be old
Not at all i was 11-12 then but i remember that night clear as anything,Driscoll lost in the next stage to Mark Ramsey...We came back down that end a few years later Eastern-Southern counties we Had 2 boxers Andy Gray got sparked in the 1st bt Dean Francis&Our super heavy got knocked out by Ira Turner from woking......
Re: amateur boxing
Posted: 02 Mar 2011, 08:03
by bennie
Tommy Gunn13 wrote:I remember in 1988 when Johnny Armour&Mick Driscoll beat Barry Trainor&Mark Atkin in the eastern-southern counties stage...Are top boxer Gavin Barker stopped Peter Hopcraft oh the memories
I'm pretty sure Armour was later eliminated by John Lyon that year, the year Lyon set the record for the most ABA titles won by an amateur boxer (seven).
Lyon later made it eight.
Re: amateur boxing
Posted: 02 Mar 2011, 09:10
by Gazmac81
i stopped boxing amateur about 8 years ago and havent attentended many shows
but your right Billy theres not much aggresion shown anymore , used to have some right tear ups and shows wear buzing but i recently went to one up here in scotland and was pretty boring.
makes me think i could probably get a comeback on the go as wouldnt need to use up as much energy as i used to
Re: amateur boxing
Posted: 02 Mar 2011, 09:31
by dbf
Mickey Driscoll - the same guy who boxed pro? He's now a very well regarded coach at West Ham ABC.
Re: amateur boxing
Posted: 03 Mar 2011, 04:03
by Tommy Gunn13
dbf wrote:Mickey Driscoll - the same guy who boxed pro? He's now a very well regarded coach at West Ham ABC.
Yes he went Pro,so he might be the same guy...
Re: amateur boxing
Posted: 03 Mar 2011, 05:45
by Broc
I feel your pain lads. I am living in Ireland and while the amateur game in Ireland is on a high these day I still must admit that the whole sport of amateur boxing at its highest level is now very tap and run. It is like fencing. Bodyshots are a waste of time unless you mean to stop a man with them, because you will never get a point for one. You could land hooks all night and never get a score. Its a case of jab, jab, jab and maybe a cross twice per round.
Command of the ring and aggression are no longer taken into account.
Re: amateur boxing
Posted: 03 Mar 2011, 08:51
by princess
billy bessey wrote:i have been out the amateur scene for a while but i went to the southern county a.b.a champs on sat and a local show today. I know pompey isnt a hotbed for boxing but what a pile of shit the amateur game is now its like fencing. people trying not to get hit rather than hitting themselves shit atmosphere shit rules shit buzz shit reffing shit everything unless you have a chance of winning an area title i just dont see the point in it. there was hardly anybody at either show where as literally every white collar show i have is sold out the amateur game really needs to do something to jazz it up the atmosphere at my shows is incomparible (is that a word?) to the pile of shit i have seen at them shows. i now know why loads of ams are turning to white collar they get paid they have a proper tear up and the adulation they get for winning a white collar bout compared to boxing for a trophy in front of 200 or so people who barely shout a word in the ams. its really not the amateur game i was in many moon ago the amateur scene really needs to shape up RANT OVER!!!
Laugh i know Billy I went to to local shows last week pile of shit