This coming Saturday will be a stunning night of boxing and will see the return of Shannon Courtenay and Ebanie Bridges competing for the vacant WBA World Bantamweight title and Savannah Marshall who will be defending her WBO World Middleweight title. Fight week for April 10th, on the Benn vs Vargas undercard, featuring the chief
There were mixed results for Arena Boxing Club’s Raven Chapman-Edwards (57kg) and Jake Carr (Youth 91kg) who both made it through to the finals of the Haringey Box Cup. Jake faced local boy Daniel Yevu of Haringey BC and won his bout on a unanimous decision. Unfortunately though Raven lost on a split decision to Nina Hughes
Haringey Box Cup (the biggest tournament in Europe) is currently taking place and Arena Boxing Club’s Hayley Forbes, Claire Farmer and Raven Chapman-Edwards all made it through to the semi final stage. However, Claire Farmer (51kg) lost out to Clare Gillham of St Mary’s Boxing Club, Chatham in her semi final bout. Despite fighting like a lion
Pave the Way is a project set up by Manchester professional boxer, Stacey Copeland, in partnership with Greater Sport Manchester and Parrs Wood High School. The project will take place throughout women’s sport week (19th – 25th June.) The goal is to pave the way for girls and women to realise their full potential through sport.
Arena Boxing Club chalked up an extremely successful weekend as their GB Champion Raven Chapman received the award for Dorset’s best Senior Boxer and young Charlie Drury won the Bristol Box Cup. Raven Chapman received the award from Bournemouth’s long time professional heavyweight Dave Fry, former foe of British and Commonwealth Champion Danny McAlinden. Also being
The inspirational Stacey Copeland has invited us to share her promotional video through which we can follow her boxing journey. From attending her grandfather’s gym as a small child to preparing for her professional debut the aim of the video is to inspire others and to pave the way for girls and women in sport. A
This weekend Arena’s GB Boxing Champion Raven Chapman and Willow Thomas of Bournemouth ABC are being awarded Senior & Junior Boxers (respectively) of the year by Bournemouth’s Ex Boxers Association. The trophies will be presented at Parley Country Club on Saturday 3 June 7.30 with a buffet and guest speakers and no doubt a large group from
The Arena Boxing Club in Bournemouth are holding their annual Boxing and Dinner event tomorrow Saturday 6th May. This fund raising event will take place at the Bournemouth Highcliff Marriott Hotel, doors open at 7.30 and boxing commences at 8pm Tickets are available on the door, or in advance from the gym (at the beginning of
Butterfly Boxing were kind enough to share their interview with professional boxers Kelly Morgan and Hannah Rankin with us. Kelly, currently injured, is the WBC Silver Middleweight Champion and Hannah, who is awaiting her debut as a professional boxer, is a professional classical musician – bassoon and contrabassoon (that should break some stereotypes). Incredible to
We are delighted to have an article on the EUBC European Women’s Boxing Championship, recently held in Sofia, Bulgaria, written by Raven Chapman. Raven is a member of the Arena Boxing Club in Bournemouth and wrote herself into the boxing history books as one of the first women to contest the English title series belt
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