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28/10/2007

Day Six at the XIV AIBA World Championships

48kg Light Flyweight Mo Nasir (WAL) lost to Harry Tanamor (PHI) 5:24

Mo Nasir (St Joseph's ABC, Newport, Wales) walked out for the 1st round over confident, looking to single punch against southpaw, Harry Tanamor (Philippines), this was never going to work. Tanamor was ready for Mo and circled right, keeping Mo at arms length, scoring with single punches and moving off, always keeping plenty of canvas between himself and the Welshman. Nasir never came to terms with the tactics of the Philippino and was behind from start to finish 1:6, 3:13, 5:19, finally losing 5:24.

There will be better days for the talented Welshman who showed none of his boxing gifts on this the second biggest stage in amateur boxing. Holding back a tear a dejected Mo traipsed off to the dressing room, he had been out thought and out generaled.

"Disappointed" was the only quote possible from Mo, Wales Head Coach, Tony Williams and assistant coach Colin Jones

48kg Light Flyweight Darran Langley (ENG) lost to Zviad Khaduri (GEO) 18:21

Darran Langley, Hollington ABC, Camberwell, London

Darran had a slow, let's have a look at him, first round against Georgia's, Zviad Khaduri and found himself 2:7 down, a deficit he was never to overcome.

Rounds 2 & 3 were tit for tat, with scores amounting to 9:14, 15:20. Langley continued to allow Khaduri to use his strong suit, which was coming forward and making the contest. When Darran attacked he had success, but this was too infrequent. Come the last round, the punching postman from Croydon, believed in his offense and almost turned the contest on its' head, narrowly missing out by a score of 18:21.

Langley, a double Commonwealth silver medal winner, is an experienced campaigner, he knows he blew an opportunity, the annoyance showed on his and the England trainers' faces as they left the ring.

60kg Lightweight Frankie Gavin (ENG) beat Merey Akshalov (KAZ) 18:9

22 yr old, 60kg, Yardley, Birmingham, southpaw, Lightweight, Frankie Gavin,

(Hall Green ABC), demonstrated his world class credentials by outmanoeuvring and out boxing, Merey Akshalov, of Kazakhstan, 20 -9. This win takes Gavin into an Olympic qualifying contest next Wednesday afternoon, 31/10/07. Frank's opponent will be fellow tricky southpaw, Ramal Amanov, of Azerbaijan.

Frank circumnavigated ring A @ the UIC Pavilion in Chicago to confuse, frustrate and outbox his Kazak opponent. Scores ticking up each round as "Fun-Time" Frankie unravelled his pursuing opponent. First round 3:2, Second round 6:5, third round 14:6 before finally running out as a decisive 20:9 winner.

Rumour has it that Frank's mobile performance has also won him a middle distance, athletic track scholarship here at the University of Illinois @ Chicago.

Frank Gavin "I underestimated how difficult, strong and awkward he is. I had to retain intense concentration throughout the bout"

Terry Edwards, Head Coach GB "Frank applied the correct tactics against a problem opponent. Great credit must go to Frank for the way he stuck to the game plan, despite the difficult style of his opponent"

81kg Light Heavyweight Tony Jeffries (ENG) beat Chris Downs (USA) 18:9

22 year old Tony Jeffries (Sunderland ABC) entered the ring a serious 2nd favourite against USA Team captain, highly fancied 32 year old, USA light heavyweight, Chris Downs. This contest was a triumph for the belief Tony Jeffries has in his own ability and of the tactics hatched by GB Head Coach Terry Edwards and team.

Tony started the bout with confidence boxing behind a solid old-fashioned straight left, then switched to the tactic of boxing counter-clockwise, moving to his right outside the left hand of the tall rangy Downs. Throwing his jab, as he stepped right, then crossed his right hand over Downs left shoulder continuing to move right cracking in powerful left hooks to the body of the utterly bemused Downs.

Chris Downs was left to follow Tony round the ring only to be met by the same tactics interspersed with the odd straight left when Tony moved back clockwise. Jeffries added further variety to his repertoire by catching the increasingly desperate American with crashing right uppercut leads.

All in all a thoroughly convincing performance from the heavy-handed Sunderland man that initially stunned a shocked American crowd into silence, delighting the many eastern Europeans in the crowd and by the end of the four rounds even lead to appreciative applause from the partisan Americans. (R1 2:1, R2 8:4, R3 14:8)

Tony Jeffries "Really good, brilliant, confident, I'm really confident."

Terry Edwards "The boy listens. He has belief. Did exactly as he was told, and brought home a tremendous win for the team."

Tony now faces super elusive, Belarussian, Ramazan Magomedov, in the last 16 for a spot in the quarterfinals and the all-important automatic Olympic qualification.

Sunday 28th October

48kg Mo Nasir (WAL) lost to Harry Tanamor (PHI) 5:24

48kg Darran Langley (ENG) lost to Zviad Khaduri (GEO) 18:21

60kg Frankie Gavin (ENG) bt Merey Akshalov (KAZ) 18:9

81kg Tony Jeffries (ENG) bt Chris Downs (USA) 18:9

Monday 29th - Rest Day

Tuesday 30th October

54kg Joe Murray (ENG) v Bruno Julie (MRI)

64kg Bradley Saunders (ENG) v Javier Molina (USA)

91kg Stephen Simmons (SCO) v Milorad Gajovic (MNE)

Wednesday 31st October

60kg Frankie Gavin (ENG) v Ramal Amanov (AZE)

81kg Tony Jeffries (ENG) v Ramazan Magomedov (BLR)

+91kg David Price (ENG) v Primislav Dimovski (MKD)

Full bout reports for all of the boxers will be available on the ABAE website on a daily basis.

Please keep the messages of support coming to the team via laura.ross@abae.org.uk.

To view the results from through out the competition please see below:

The Worlds Day One (Tuesday 23rd October)

The Worlds Day Two (Wednesday 24th October)

The Worlds Day Three (Thursday 25th October)

The Worlds Day Four (Friday 26th October)

The Worlds Day Five (Saturday 27th October)

The Worlds Day Six (Sunday 28th October)

The Worlds Day Seven (REST DAY)

The Worlds Day Eight (Tuesday 30th October)

The Worlds Day Nine (Wednesday 31st October)

The Worlds Day Ten (Thursday 1st November)

Semi-Finals The Worlds Day Eleven (Friday 2nd November)

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