Wellington belt up and target more titles
Wellington Boxing Academy are still in the running for more title glory after crowning their latest champion.
The Mill Lane fight club still have a vested interest in the National Association of Girls & Boys Clubs Championship,
And Ammir Fiaz, son of head coach Mo, claimed the Central England Boxing Elite 75kg belt from title holder Jordan Cameron in Leicester.
Fiaz, a seasoned operator of 74 unpaid bouts with 56 wins, and Cameron clashed on a Braunstone Golden Gloves club show last weekend.
A classy and aloof performance from the 19-year-old against Cameron, from Empire in Nottinghamshire, got the job done unanimously on points.
The cleaner work came from the challenger, who slipped Cameron's attacks and performed well on the back-foot to claim victory.
Club-mate Husan Hussain, who is still involved in the NAGBCs, also boxed on the show and notched another win over perennial rival Tyler Breviglieri.
Hussain made it 3-1 in bouts against Breviglieri, from Scunthorpe Centurions, with a repeat of his unanimous success on Wellington's home show last month.
The club's first national champion, in the England Junior tournament this year, was keeping busy as he awaits his first NAGBC bout.
He's walked over Sunday's national quarter-finals in Birmingham, too, and will come into the reckoning for the semis the following weekend at 48kg in Class B, for boxers born in 1999.
And Wellington's Idris Mohammed could still make the last four clashes in Yorkshire - despite losing in the last round.
Mohammed thought he'd bowed out after a unanimous defeat to Thomas Hessin, from Waterfront in Leicester, earlier this month.
But Hessin sustained a hand injury in the contest, which could force his withdrawal and Mohammed's reinstatement.
There's no Class B 70kg opponent awaiting in the quarter-final, so Hessin will be given extra time to prove his fitness before a decision is made.
Chadd Woodfield, from Len Woodhall's Community Club in Madeley, exited the NAGBCs at 66kg in Class B in the last phase.
Woodfield, who made the switch from Ludlow to the old Telford & Wrekin as the competition began, was beaten by two-time national finalist Patrick Smith.
Smith, from Kings Heath in Northampton, took the first round and survived Woodfield's onslaught to the body in the second, before a fairly even third. His hand was raised unanimously.
