Following weeks of negotiations, ABS has pulled off a significant coup by persuading the Russian Boxing Federation’s best Youth boxers and coaches to visit Scotland for a two week training and sparring camp. The visiting boxers are some of Russia’s finest and will go on to compete in the 2012 World Youth Championships in Yerevan, Armenia later in the year.
The Russian team can be seen above following its arrival at Edinburgh Airport late last night – Monday 15 October 2012.
With this in mind, ABS is pleased to announce that a sparring programme has been arranged between selected ABS boxers and youth boxers from Russia on the following dates;
SATURDAY 20th & SUNDAY 21st OCTOBER 2012
VENUE: Kingdom ABC, Seaforth Place, Rosslyn Street, Kirkcaldy, KY1 3AE
ABS requests that the following boxers attend the sparring sessions on the date and time shown below:
Saturday 20th October: (The weights are displayed only to show the weight category of the sparring group)
0945hrs
(49kg – 52kg) Aqeel Ahmed, Gary Ducie, Jack Turner
(56kg) Craig McIntyre, Scott McCormack, Lewis Paulin
(69kg) Connor Law, James Dickie
1345hrs
(60kg) Mark McKeown
(64kg) Sam Ball, Jason Easton, James Thompson
(81kg) Brian Forsyth, Brian Peacock, Tommy Philbin
Sunday 21st October: Same groups and timings as above
This is an opportunity not to be missed so boxers are urged to attend the sparring sessions as per the programme.
Anyone who is unable to attend their specific session please contact Craig McEvoy on 07974 302782 as Mike Keane, ABS National Coach, will be accompanying the ABS team travelling to the Tammer Tournament this weekend in Finland.
Please note the sessions are invite only due to the numbers in attendance and limited
Further updates and announcements regards the visiting Russian team will be provided in due course.
