Ben Holme

COMMONWEALTH Games participant Lennon Mulligan says he can’t wait to pull on the international vest and put on a show in front of his home fans tomorrow night.

The 20-year-old will be co-headlining the bill as Scotland take on Ireland in a dual international at Ravenscraig Regional Sports Facility in Motherwell, with the boxing getting underway from 7pm.

This will be the Castlemilk boxer’s first time competing on Scottish soil since boxing at last summer’s Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.

The 20-year-old fought twice at the Games, defeating Eriu Temakau from Kiribati in the Round of 16, before losing out to eventual Gold medal winner Amit Panghal from India in the Quarter-Finals.

The Rob Roy boxer will be facing fellow 2022 Commonwealth Games participant Clepson Dos Santos, who also lost in the Flyweight Quarter-Finals while representing Northern Ireland to eventual Bronze medal winner Jake Dodd of Wales.

“It will be good to box in Scotland again, the last time was just over a year ago against England in a dual at our High Performance Centre,” Lennon said.

“I won then, so I will be looking for the same again this weekend and to impress in front of my home fans.

“I know my opponent tomorrow night well from the Commonwealth Games and he also went out in the Quarter-Finals.

“I was gutted at the time not to medal at the Games, but looking back now it was two good fights and I done my all in the ring.

“It just wasn’t good enough on the day.

“The Indian boxer was good and tricky, but if I fight him again it will be a different story.

“I am improving all the time.”

That improvement has been noted with Lennon being one of three Scottish boxers, alongside Bantamweight Aaron Cullen (Renfrewshire) and Light-Welterweight Luke Bibby (Perth Railway), to currently be on assessment to potentially join the GB Boxing Squad in Sheffield.

Commonwealth Games Gold medal winners Reese Lynch and Sam Hickey are currently the only two Scottish boxers on the GB Boxing Podium Squad.

“It has been good, it is always hard sparring down there,” Lennon added of his recent assessments down in Sheffield.

“We were meant to be down there again this week, but obviously we have the Ireland international.

“So I think I will be back down there next month after I go to a competition in Lithuania for my third assessment.

“My goal is to go down there. That is where you want to be as an amateur boxer.

“It would be good to have more Scottish boxers down there as well.”

Lennon will be topping the bill alongside fellow GB Boxing hopeful Luke Bibby tomorrow night, with 13 Youth & Elite bouts currently scheduled to take place.

Tickets for the dual international are priced at £25 and can be bought either at the door of the event (doors open 6:30pm, start time 7pm) or beforehand directly from the participating Scottish boxers.

Alternatively, tickets will be able to bought earlier on the day of Saturday 18^th March at the Youth & Elite Golden Gloves Championships (which start at 11am at Ravenscraig) for just £5 for those who also buy a one or two-day ticket for those Championships.

Additionally, the event will also be streamed live on Facebook in partnership with JATV Live for £1.99.

Please note, the café at Ravenscraig will be open from 6-10pm serving snacks and soft drinks, although no alcohol will be available for purchase at this event.

Scotland v Ireland Dual International Running Order for Saturday 18^th March. Boxing gets underway from 7pm;

Bout 1 – Elite Flyweight, Aqeel Ahmed (Scotland) v Padraig Downey (Ireland)

Bout 2 – Youth Lightweight, Leo Church (Scotland) v Fionn Duffy (Ireland)

Bout 3 – Youth Light-Welterweight, Sonny Kerr (Scotland) v Ronnan Love (Ireland)

Bout 4 – Youth Cruiserweight, Josh Mullen (Scotland) v Anthony Taggart (Ireland)

Bout 5 – Youth Lightweight, Patrick Paton (Scotland) v Bernie Stokes (Ireland)

Bout 6 – Youth Welterweight, Drew Limond (Scotland) v Kyle Smith (Ireland)

Bout 7 – Elite Light-Middleweight, Harry McGrenra (Scotland) v Jon McConnel (Ireland)

Bout 8 – Elite Bantamweight, Stephanie Kernachan (Scotland) v Nicole Clyde (Ireland)

Bout 9 – Elite Lightweight, Isa Akram (Scotland) v Rhys Owens (Ireland)

Bout 10 – Elite Lightweight, Nick Devlin (Scotland) v Lee McKee (Ireland)

Bout 11 – Youth Featherweight, Taylor Gough (Scotland) v Casey Walsh (Ireland)

Bout 12 – Elite Flyweight, Lennon Mulligan (Scotland) v Clepson Dos Santos (Ireland)

Bout 13 – Elite Light-Welterweight, Luke Bibby (Scotland) v Anthony Malnaphy (Ireland)

*Card subject to change.

COMMONWEALTH Games Gold medal winners Reese Lynch and Sam Hickey have completed a training camp in Kazakhstan.

The Scottish duo were in the Central Asian country for the past week with the GB Boxing squad for a world class training camp at the Akbulak Olympic Centre in Almaty.

This was Rob Roy boxer Lynch’s third training camp of 2023, after having completed a camp in Italy in January and a camp with the USA Boxing Team at the US Olympic Training Centre in Colorado in February as he awaits his first bout of the year.

Lochee’s Hickey also trained in Italy, before travelling to the Bocskai Tournament in Hungary last month where he made his debut as a Light-Heavyweight, coming home with a Bronze medal.

This will be a big year for the Commonwealth Games champions as they look to qualify for next summer’s Olympic Games in Paris – with reigning WBO Light-Welterweight champion Josh Taylor remaining the only Scottish boxer to compete at an Olympics in the past 30 years.

The duo are currently the only Scottish boxers on the GB Boxing squad in Sheffield, although Renfrewshire’s Aaron Cullen, Rob Roy’s Lennon Mulligan and Perth Railway’s Luke Bibby are currently on assessment to potentially join the squad.

Mulligan and Bibby will both be in action in the international vest in Motherwell on Saturday as they top the bill as Scotland have a dual international with Ireland.

There are scheduled to be at least 10 international contests on Saturday 18th March at Ravenscraig Regional Sports Facility, with the boxing getting underway from 7pm.

Tickets for the dual international are priced at £25 and can be bought either at the door of the event (doors open 6:30pm, start time 7pm) or beforehand directly from the participating Scottish boxers.

Alternatively, tickets will be able to bought earlier on the day of Saturday 18^th March at the Youth & Elite Golden Gloves Championships for just £5 for those who also buy a one or two-day ticket for those Championships.

Additionally, the event will also be streamed live on Facebook in partnership with JATV Live for the low cost of £1.99.

SCOTLAND’S Luke Bibby has said he feels like he is in peak form heading into Saturday’s dual international with Ireland.

The reigning British Light-Welterweight champion will be one of more than 10 boxers from the Elite Boxing Group to represent Boxing Scotland in the dual match which takes place at Ravenscraig Regional Sports Facility from 7pm.

The bout will be the 22-year-old’s first of 2023, following training camps in Rotterdam with the Dutch National Squad and with the British Army Boxing team in Glasgow earlier this year.

The Perth Railway boxer will be hoping to put on a show as he is one of three Scots currently on assessment to potentially join the GB Boxing Squad in Sheffield, alongside Rob Roy’s Lennon Mulligan and Renfrewshire’s Aaron Cullen.

“Training has been superb off the back of two high level training camps,” Bibby told the Perthshire Advertiser.

“The first was over in the Netherlands with the Dutch team and then a week’s sparring camp in Glasgow with the British Army boxing team.

“I am also currently on assessment for Team GB and have had two assessments over the last couple of weeks.

“I feel I’m in peak form going into the dual international with Ireland and then a tournament in Lithuania which follows.”

Tickets for the dual international are priced at £25 and can be bought either at the door of the event (doors open 6:30pm, start time 7pm) or beforehand directly from the participating Scottish boxers.

Alternatively, tickets will be able to bought earlier on the day of Saturday 18^th March at the Youth & Elite Golden Gloves Championships for just £5 for those who also buy a one or two-day ticket for those Championships.

The event will also be streamed live in partnership with JATV, however please note that we will be trialling an online PPV method for this event.

Further event details will follow in due course.

Dear Members,

We have received a small number of withdrawals for boxers that were included in the Final Entry List/draw for the Boxing Scotland National Youth & Elite Golden Gloves Championships.

A link to the active list of withdrawals can be found at the bottom of this post.

Please note, the published Running Orders for the competition will not be amended, so it is the club’s responsibility to cross reference with the withdrawal list to know if their boxer will no longer be competing on a set day.

If an opponent is on the withdrawal list then your club’s boxer will be given a walkover into the next round.

If your boxer has a walkover then your boxer will not need to weigh-in on that day, despite being on the published Running Order, as boxers will only weigh-in on days that they compete.

If the bout was a straight final then unfortunately your boxer will not have a bout at the competition. Please note, boxers must win at least one bout in the competition in order to win a medal/pair of Golden Gloves.

We will continue to update this list as and when we receive withdrawals. We would recommend that club’s bookmark the web page and check regularly, as all changes will be added to the same post.

If clubs have any further withdrawals then please e-mail competitions@boxingscotland.org as early as possible.

Only confirmations sent to the above e-mail address will be accepted.

When sending, please list;

• Boxer name
• Club Name
• Year of Birth
• Weight

Please note, only names listed on the withdrawal list have been officially withdrawn from the competition. If a club reaches out to inform you of a withdrawal which affects your boxer, it is only official if they are on the below list.

Official Withdrawal List (last updated Friday 17th March at 2:35pm);

No.	Name	Club	Gender	Age Category	Weight
1	Isa Akram	Rob Roy	Male	Elite	60kg
2	Luke Bibby	Perth Railway	Male	Elite	63.5kg
3	Patrick Paton	Argo	Male	Youth 2005	60kg
4	Daniel Dunn	Hamilton	Male	Youth 2005	60kg
5	Zhuo Liu	Glasgow City	Male	Youth 2005	71kg
6	Arsene Kamdem	Glasgow City	Male	Elite	86kg
7	Josh Mullen	Springhill	Male	Youth 2005	86kg
8	Abdur Altaf	Hamilton	Male	Youth 2005	63.5kg
9	Conor Morgan	Keir Hardie	Male	Youth 2006	63.5kg
10	Klara Honey Vizma	Glasgow Boxing Academy	Female	Elite	70kg
11	Calum Smith	Lochend	Male	Elite	60kg
12	Sandy Reid	Rob Roy	Male	Elite	71kg
13	Drew Limond	Keir Hardie	Male	Youth 2006	67kg
14	Kieran Simmons	Shire	Male	Elite	67kg
15	Ahmed Saleh	Jonsey’s	Male	Elite	75kg
16	Jordan Hayter	Inverclyde	Male	Elite	75kg
17	Ross Cornett	Forgewood	Male	Elite	75kg
18	Jack Grieve	Galashiels	Male	Elite	75kg

 

Regards,

Boxing Scotland

Dear Members,

We are now able to confirm more details regarding the upcoming Boxing Scotland Youth & Elite Golden Gloves Championships.

An administrative document has been produced and we would advise clubs to familiarise themselves with it ahead of the Championships getting underway.

The Championships will be held at Ravenscraig Regional Sports Facility, Motherwell on the dates of 18th/19th/25th March, with the Elite Golden Gloves Finals on 15th April 2023.

Please note, the administrative document covers the dates of 18th/19th/25th March only – an administrative document to cover the Elite Golden Gloves Finals on April 15th will follow in due course.

A link to the document can be found at the bottom of this post.

Some of the key information from the document includes;

Spectator Prices; (Tickets can only be purchased at the door of the event)

Adult:  1 Day – £20, 2 Day – £35

Children Under-16: 1 Day – £10, 2 Day – £15

Two-day ticket is only valid for over the course of the same weekend (ie 18^th/19^th March).

*Please note, on Saturday 18th March all spectators who buy a Youth & Elite Championship ticket will be able to purchase a ticket for the Scotland v Ireland dual international , scheduled for that evening at Ravenscraig from 7pm, for just £5.

Boxer Weigh-in times; (Boxers only weigh-in on days that they compete)

Weigh-in – 0800 – 1000. Boxing will commence at 1100. Times are the same for each day of the competition.

There will be no weight allowance for either Youth or Elite boxers for this competition. As with prior Open class Championships, Youth boxers will NOT have to wear a vest/shorts for the weigh-in.

Boxers should bring a printed off and completed Pre/Post Bout Medical Pro-Forma to give to the Doctor before commencing the Medical prior to weighing-in – these can be found here – 20220801_BSL_Pre-Post-Bout-Medical_Vers2_20220929.pdf (boxingscotland.org)

Wraps;

• Elite boxers;

The use of professional hand wraps shall be mandatory for this competition for Elite boxers, as per IBA rules.

The materials provided for professional hand wraps for each Boxer shall be as follows:

Gauze Bandage:

2 rolls of 5 cm x 15 m Gauze (1 roll of gauze for each hand)

2 rolls of 5 cm x 10 m Gauze (1 roll to create a knuckle pad for each hand)

Zinc Oxide Tape:

2 rolls of 2.5 cm x 13 m

1 roll of 1.25 cm x 13 m for between the fingers

All equipment shall be clearly branded, and packaging will include specifications and relevant instructions.

In AOB Elite Competitions, a Boxer shall apply the provided gauze bandages and tape on his hands as he likes, provided that the knuckles of his hand are not covered by the Zinc Oxide Tape.

The use of any substance or object on the Gauze and/or Zinc Oxide Tape is prohibited.

Pro-wraps must be checked and signed for by the nominated representative prior to gloving up.

• Youth boxers;

Approved IBA wraps are to be worn by Youth boxers for this competition, but any wrap that is in accordance with the dimensions for wraps set out in the IBA Boxing Rule Book are appropriate.  No professional wraps are allowed for Youth boxers.  Boxers will be required to supply their own wraps.

Coach Bands;

Coach bands will be able to be collected from the ticket desk between 9-9:30am on each day of the competition.

Filming;

Please note, as per the terms and conditions of the competition, all bouts at the event will be filmed.

The dates of 18^th/19^th/25^th March 2023 will all be streamed live on the Boxing Scotland Official YouTube channel.

Administrative Document – Administrative Document – Youth & Elite Golden Gloves Championships 2023

Regards,

Boxing Scotland

Happy Commonwealth Day from Boxing Scotland!

Commonwealth Day takes place on Monday 13th March 2023, marking the beginning of a week-long series of events and activities happening around the globe.

Commonwealth Day 2023 marks the tenth anniversary of the signing of the Commonwealth Charter, which was signed by Her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on 11 March 2013.

Boxing remains the most consistently successful Scottish sport at the Commonwealth Games, being the only one to win a medal at every single edition of the Commonwealth Games since they began in 1930.

Last year another chapter of success was written into the history books as Team Scotland enjoyed our most successful Games for Scottish boxers, as we won three Gold medals at a single Games for the first time.

Reese Lynch, Sam Hickey and Sean Lazzerini all became Commonwealth champions in Birmingham last summer, with Matthew McHale and Tyler Jolly also each winning a Bronze medal.