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Holland Park Amateur Boxing Club

SATURDAY 1st NOVEMBER 2014

Hassenbrook Academy Trust

Specialist Technical College

Hassenbrrok Road

Stanford-le-hope

Essex

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THIS EVENT HAS BEEN ORGANISED BY:

Holland Park A.B.C.

11, Bowers Croft, Basildon, Essex, SS14 3DX

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On behalf of all at Holland Park A.B.C I’d like to extend a warm welcome and personally thank each of you for attending this special event and I hope you all have a fantastic time. We have a wonderful group of boxers primed and ready to display some of the skills they have been learning in this, our first public event. At Holland Park ABC it is an exciting time, we continue to grow on a day-by-day basis and having achieved the recognised ABA status we wanted that progression is set to continue. Events such as the one today keep our boxers motivated and focused motivated, but it also makes sure that we are able to draw public attention to our club. We know there will be many challenges ahead and we are looking forward to meeting them. As always, with small clubs such as ours, one of those challenges will be financial and the sponsorship, entrance fees and contribution from this programme will help us to bring in some much needed revenue. We firmly believe that sport, and especially in our case boxing, should be all-inclusive and welcoming to all; no matter what your gender, age, ethnicity or financial

ability is, it is important that we do all we can to take a pro-active stance in raising revenue through events such as this and will continue to fundraise so we are able to provide equipment and facilities to those who this would normally prove to be a handicap. You will note that throughout this programme there are some commercial and personal adverts, these paid-for adverts from businesses and individuals have helped us boost our revenue but it doesn’t stop here. We will always be on the lookout for ways of working or increasing our coffers and would welcome any donation no matter what size. Please use the contact slip on page 15. The world of amateur boxing is a unique, exciting sport which blends hard work, study and play, whilst at the same time teaching discipline and focus. These skills are valuable in everyday life so with that in mind we will continue to

meet, bring together and be inspired by young people and continue to shape positive futures for all of those who take part. Today’s event is just the beginning of the journey and with your continued support we will be able to keep going and keep providing fresh opportunities to our boxers, and that is the driving force behind our ethos.

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The History of Amateur Boxing Starting in the 19

th to legalise what was then called prize fighting, amateur boxing made an attempt to the

centuries old sport. Mainly because of the moral grounds and to supported by the state to get away from the

illegal boxing booths which had sprung and become the source not only of illegal fighting but also

gambling.

When it first became legal the working classes hated it, saying that it was an effort by the toff’s who didn’t

have the strength, speed or power to take on the working classes. They argued back that it was to become

safer, and more of a science that a brutal art. It was easy to ‘sell this new concept in schools, universities and

the armed forces, especially the American Army. Boxing booths still existed and it is said that the last

boxing booth was closed for good in 1950’s.

When Amateur boxing took off,

despite the disagreements it was

usually those who were from poorer

backgrounds who were the most

successful and this is true today, most

of the world champions have come

from traditionally working class or

poorer backgrounds.

Amateur boxers continued to wear

gloves even after the introduction of

the Queensbury Rules and in 1880, the

A.B.A. was formed, there were just 12

clubs at that time. The first

championships were held in 1881

where there were just four recognised

weights: Featherweight, Lightweight,

Middleweight and Heavyweight. In 1900 American boxers started to

join and by 1902 they were competing

for the title, so it was then that the

ABA were recognised as being an

international phenomena, and in 1924

the ABA had grown from the initial 12

clubs to over 100.

Amateur boxing has been a part of every Olympic Games (except one) since it was first introduced in 1904,

and Cuba remains in first place with the number of Gold Medals which have been won.

In 1946, the IBIA (international Amateur Boxing Association) was formed and this continues today. When it

was first introduced there were 24 countries spread across five continents and other than the ABA, is the

most widely recognised amateur boxing organisation in the world. Britain has had a number of Olympic

Gold Medallists the latest being Anthony Joshua who won Olympic Gold at the London Olympics and of

course Nicola Adams was Britain’s first female Olympic Gold Medallist. Although there have been previous

events including female boxers at amateur level, the first an exhibition match in 1904, The European Cup in

1999 and the World Championships in 2001it was then agreed in 2009 that female boxing would be part of

the next Olympic Games, which were held in London.

Britain’s Olympic Gold Medal Holders

Anthony Joshua Place of birth: Watford Hertfordshire

Year of Birth: 1989

Age: 24

Height: 6’ 7”

Weight: 16st 10lb

Reach: 82”

Amateur career highlight: Olympic Gold Medal London 2012

Year turned professional 2013

Professional career: 9 wins, 0 defeats (all 9 wins by way of KO)

Nicola Adams

Place of birth: Leeds, West Yorkshire

Year of Birth: 1982

Age: 32

Height: 5.5”

Weight: 8st 13lb

Amateur career highlight: Olympic Gold Medal London 2012

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Greatest ever pound-for-pound boxers

Manny Pacquiao

Sugar Ray Robinson

Floyd Mayweather Jnr

Muhammad Ali Sugar Ray Leonard

Joe Louis

Roberto Duran Oscar De La Hoya

Thomas (The Hitman) Hearns

George Foreman

Joe Frazier Henry Cooper

One for the scrapbook

Henry Cooper fought Muhammad Ali twice in his career with the first coming in 1963. It was a non-title fight at a packed out Wembley Stadium, some people claimed the noise from the crowd was the loudest it had ever been and remained so until that July day in 1966 when England beat the Germans to lift the world cup.

This fight was billed as being one of the greatest ever involving a British Boxer. With the end of the 4th round fast approaching, and having spend most of the fight being battered by Ali, Cooper unleashed a cracking left hook (‘Enry’s Ammer) and Ali was sent tumbling.

It is said that two things were in favour of the then world champion, first, he got caught up in the ropes on the way down, had be gone straight to the hard floor of the ring (the canvas) he may not have recovered and secondly, Angelo Dundee was said to have made a small tear in one of Ali’s gloves which gained extra time and delayed the start of the 5th round. There have been made different accounts to this, some saying that it was minutes with Ali having to find some new gloves and others saying the ref just said “get on with it” and the delay was a little as ten seconds, either way the distraction was enough, and Ali came back and won the fight in the 5th the referee stopping the fight.

Muhammad Ali later said on British television that Cooper "had hit him so hard that his ancestors in Africa felt it" a true compliment from the man who was voted world boxer of the century.

Henry Cooper died on May 1st 2011 (aged 76.) So popular was the boy from Lambeth, that he was one of only three people to have been awarded BBC Sports Personality of the Year twice, and remains the only boxer to have been awarded a Knighthood.

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Who am I?

I was born in London in 1926, I boxed for both county and country and by the end of the second world war

I was the first Olympic Champion (post war) I died in 1985, and was given an obe for service to boxing.

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