Region breaks records as it celebrates seven national champions at ABA finals
With eight boxers in elite national finals at the weekend, the most of any region, hopes were high that Merseyside & Cheshire could add to their long and proud list of ABA senior champions and the boxing hotbed didn’t disappoint when no fewer than seven of them triumphed in Derby.
After a relatively – by its own standards - quiet period when few of its rising stars made the finals let alone won them, the region looked back to its best last year when Kurt Wiggins , Callum Makin and Stephen Clarke all tasted national glory.
Whilst all performed well it was Croxteth’s Oliver Jones who won the coveted Mickey May Memorial Award for boxer of the tournament with a fantastic performance from start to finish in his 63.5kg final victory over Harvey Orriss . READ MORE: Peter McGrail eyes Ja’Rico O’Quinn rematch or British title shot after returning to winning waysElsewhere, the region’s four other male winners were No Limits’ Lucas Dube at 51kg, Kai Birch at 54kg – the title Wiggins won last year, hard-hitting Lucas Biswana – who stopped four out of six opponents on his way to the 67kg final – and, at 71kg, reigning champion Callum Makin who moves into an even more select band with his second national championship.
The region’s two female champions were the Rotunda’s Olivia Holmes who beat defending champion Vivien Parsons - added to the GB Olympic programme only last year – and Halton Riverside’s Rhea Kanu who, after losing the 52kg final last year, dropped down two divisions to claim the title at 48kg.
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