Boxing club the best at Welsh championships
See next Wednesday’s Post for a round-up of the Swansea Senior League cup finals
CWMAVON Hornets Amateur Boxing Club are celebrating having two Elite Welsh ABA champions after success at the recent Welsh championships, making the Hornets the club with the most Elite Welsh champions this year.
They also had a junior winner in the 50kg category in 15-year-old Emmanuel Siderenko from Gorseinon, who claimed his third Welsh title with a split points decision when he beat Mason Rogers from Prince of Wales ABC in Cardiff.
Levi Griffiths, a 24-year-old from Port Talbot, won the Elite middleweight (75kg) title, this being his second Welsh vest.
Griffiths, who has just become a father for the first time, beat Keanu Fryer from Cwmcarn ABC in Gwent in the final on a unanimous points decision.
And Cassius Walker Hunt, aged 25, also from Port Talbot, took the Elite heavyweight crown at 92kg, this being his second consecutive Welsh title.
He beat Ross Bowen from Premier ABC in Swansea when the referee stopped the fight in the third round.
Club coach Nigel Davies said all the fighters gave impressive displays.
“We have had three Welsh champions from the club in the past,” he said, “so this was the second time we have won the Western Mail & Echo trophy for being the most successful Welsh club at the championships.”
The club had a third Elite finalist in Morgan Mcintosh in the light-middleweight (71kg) class but he was unlucky to lose a split points decision after an accidental clash of heads with his opponent left him with a badly swollen eye.
All three Elite finalists from the Hornets have been chosen to represent Wales in the Three Nations contest against England and Scotland in Sophia Gardens next month. Fourteen-year-old Tyler Ford, who boxes at 42kg, has also been picked for Wales’s Three Nations team.