Founded over 30 years ago, Brian Blair trained some of Gosport’s finest boxers, the Booker brothers, Tony Dore, Richard & Darren Blair, Dave French and Billy O’Neil to name a few.
In 2000, Brian’s son Darren took over as head coach and has since raised fund’s that enabled the club to move from a sports hall in St Vincent College to there own premises at the Sanderson Centre.
Last year saw Gosport Boxer Sam Couzens turn professional. Sam has gone on to win both his fights so far. Well done Sam!
In 2008 our female boxers had a good season, Kelly O’Neil was the finalist of the Women’s ABA’s and Amanda Holloway won Gold at Haringey.
We have a brilliant team of boxers, Ricky Pipe, Aaron Cleaver and Luke Willis have boxed over 70 bouts between them as juniors. We have many more juniors and seniors that box or are up and coming, and ready to travel to the various matches and competitions held locally and further a field.
As for recreational boxers, as a club we couldn’t ask for more dedication and hard work than the men, women and children show at our training sessions. So, if you are looking to get fit and have fun we are open to all ages (6+), gender and abilities. Come down and give boxing a try!
As a non profit making sports club, we wouldn’t exist if it wasn’t for the continuous time and effort given by our ABA qualified coaches; Darren Blair, Steve Pipe, Mike Alderson, Dave French, Dan Gerlack, Amanda Holloway, Rich Blair, Lee Thomson and Rachel Kelleher.
We encourage parents to help out on our junior sessions and hope to have some of them take the next coaching course. We are always in need of coaches, so even if you haven’t boxed before and you’d like to know more please contact us.
For the future, we will continue to run ‘Boxing Award’ play schemes in the school holidays and will be working in conjunction with Gosport Borough Councils sports department to develop this further.
Fareport training organization’s learners attend our club weekly and we are very proud of their achievements so far…keep up the good work!
We are also hoping to take our boxing sessions to after school clubs in Gosport and Fareham so if you think this would be of value to a school near you, please contact us for more information.