Canberra Boxing Bulletin #6

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Canberra Boxing Bulletin - No. 6, May 1999

Contents

Good turnout at Canberra competition

Age restrictions in boxing

Selected upcoming competitions

Results of Southern District tournament

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Good turnout at Canberra competition

The first competition night for the Southern Districts zone for 1999 was held in Canberra at the Tuggeranong PCYC on Saturday 1^st May. Fifty six boxers registered for the tournament. In all there were 23 bouts in front of an audience of around 300 people. Five of the junior bouts involved boxers under 14, there were nine other junior bouts and nine senior bouts.

Best senior bout of the night was awarded to Dani El Charmi and Gerard O’Mahony, with best junior bout to Luke Boyd and Craig Ruddiman.

Results are listed overleaf. As always, a number of boxers could not be matched on the night, including several of the seniors from Canberra. With other zone competitions coming up at Young and Bowral, hopefully those who missed out on 1^st May will have a chance to step into the ring soon.

Boxers on the program were from the following clubs: Bankstown, Bowral, Camden, Campbelltown, Canberra, Chester Hill, Crockers Gym, Earlwood. Fairfield, Griffith, Magpie Gym, Oakdale, Richmond, Roy Jones Gym, Silver Fox (Young), St Mary’s, Stan Green’s (Lithgow), Sutherland. It was good to see plenty of club members coming down to Canberra to support their boxers.

A NSWABA level 1 coaching course and a coaches refresher course were run over the same weekend by NSWABA Registrar John Thompson.

A meeting of the Southern Districts Zone of NSWABA was also held in Canberra over the weekend. Zone president Don Abnett was elected to life membership in recognition of his continuing contribution to the zone over many years.

It was resolved to pursue the possibility of merging the Southern Districts zone with part of the current Orana zone in view of the difficulties the latter zone has had this year.

The meeting also appointed Tony Whelan and Steve Chester as its delegate and alternate delegate to the NSWABA.

Age restrictions in boxing

A joint Commonwealth/State Working Group of Sports Ministers is looking at "modified rules for juniors" in amateur boxing. The working group will shortly arrange a round table meeting with a number of sporting bodies and "interested parties" to discuss the issue.

ACT Boxing will be involved with these proceedings, and will argue that governments have no business interfering with a sport that already has far stricter safety controls for juniors than any other contact sport.

Selected upcoming competitions

DATE	LOCATION	ORGANISED BY
Sat 15 MAY	Fairfield PCYC	Orana
Sat 22 MAY	Young RSL	Southern District
Sat 29 MAY	St Mary's Band Club	NSWABA
Sat 5 JUN	Mittagong RSL Club	Southern District
Fri 18 JUN	Merrylands Bowling Club	NSWABA
Sat 19 JUN	Sutherland PCYC	PCYC
Fri 25 JUN	Coogee Randwick RSL	NSWABA
Sat 26 JUN	Oakdale Workers Club	Southern District
Sat 26 JUN	Bathurst	Orana

Results of Southern District tournament					held at Canberra on 1 May 1999 – winners in bold print
	Rnds	Name	Club	Age		Kg	Name	Club	Age	Kg	Notes
1	3 x 2	Richard Catt	Fairfield	16		54	Paul Haines	Stan Greens	16	54	rsco (3)
2	3 x 1.5	Bilal Chamma	Bankstown	12		41	Sean Ruddiman	Sutherland	13	41	rsco (2)
3	3 x 2	Grant Coleman	Stan Greens	15		57	Dennis Roberts	Magpies	16	57	rscu (2)
4	3 x 1.5	Mohamed Elomar	Bankstown	14		38	Luke O’Hara	Fairfield	12	38	rsci (1)
5	3 x 2	Simon Mitchell	Canberra	27		74.7	Joel Hopes	Earlwood	16	78.4	points
6	3 x 1.5	Emmett Gazzard	Bowral	15		44.5	Luke Akauola	Fairfield	13	48	points
7	3 x 2	Ricky Hore	Magpies	15		44	Thomas Jones	Silver Fox	14	48.1	points
8	3 x 2	Darren Summerrell	Canberra	16		49.75	Babak Nikbin	Roy Jones Gym	16	49.4	points
9	3 x 2	Alex Bookluck	Sutherland	15		51	Bilal Dib	Bankstown	14	48	points
10	3 x 2	Abdullah Chamma	Bankstown	14		54	Dennis Thorne	Fairfield	15	54	points
11	3 x 2	Michael Johnston	Magpies	14		54	Daniel O’Hara	Fairfield	14	48	points
12	3 x 2	Robert Parsons	Silver Fox	19		57.7	Warrick Laverack	Magpie	22	54.7	RETIRED (1)
13	3 x 2	Zaher Awar	Bankstown	17		63.5	David Yates	Chester Hill	23	67	POINTS
14	3 x 2	Peter Rhodes	Silver Fox	18		67	Jarrod Wall	Crockers Gym	17	65.45	POINTS
15	3 x 2	Evan Farrel	Griffith	20		67.85	Leon Gray	Bowral	17	67.55	POINTS
16	3 x 1.5	Luke Boyd	St Marys	11		35	Craig Ruddiman	Sutherland	11	35	POINTS
17	3 x 1.5	Justin Yeaman	Oakdale	11		33	David Brown	Campbell-town	12	30	POINTS
18	3 x 2	Craig Knight	Silver Fox, Young	16		70.6	Adam Elgarhy	Sutherland	15	70.65	POINTS
19	3 x 2	Andrew McGlone	Richmond	15		71.45	Adam Lovelock	Canberra	16	73.1	POINTS
20	3 x 2	Brad Hehir	Canberra	17		75	Gabi Diad	Bankstown	23	71	DISQUAL (3)
21	3 x 2	Allan Eldridge	Silver Fox	19		81.8	Geoff Taylor	Camden	22	80.6	RSCU (2)
22	3 x 2	Brett Smith	Chester Hill	23		97.3	Jason Jones	Silver Fox	24	93.1	POINTS
23	4 x 2	Dani El Chami	Bankstown	16		68.15	Gerard O’Mahony	Canberra	20	67.05	POINTS

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