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Boxing: Young Hall duo dazzle in Shields

FOREST HALL have celebrated two outstanding victories by their young boxers.Read

Havana link is set to pay off

GEORDIE David Pendleton has been allowed to train with the elite Cuban Olympic boxing squad in Havana.Read

Local boxers are a knockout

GEORDIE Jon-Lewis Dickinson has scooped two prestigious boxing awards.Read

Ferguson’s relishing pro chance

WALLSEND heavyweight David Ferguson is relishing being a pro boxer after thinking he’d blown his chance big time.Read

Cuba trip to boost David’s Beijing bid

GEORDIE David Pendleton, a former ABA light heavyweight champion, is to spend five weeks in Cuba undergoing intensive top-level training in the hope he can still gatecrash the Beijing Olympics next year.Read

Boxers Light up stadium

Newcastle's former British featherweight cham- pion John Davison will be guest of honour on foreign soil when North East heavyweights lead the parade at the Stadium of Light on Sunday.Read

From hero to zero – and back again?

Once Steve Harmison was hailed as the best bowler in the world. A speedster of well- grooved action, fearsome bounce, pace and hostility, who got batsmen of genius out on a good surface.Read

French window of opportunity

High Fell's Ryan French will lead the North East charge in the semi-finals of the Golden Belt national competition at Stoke Mandeville on Saturday.Read

Hall's well as Sean's experience pays off

Bilton Hall's top senior prospect Sean Moore won the best boxer award at the club's last show of the season at the Temple Park Leisure Centre in South Shields after a terrific win over Marco Marsden.Read

Hats off to Ricky

World champion Ricky Hatton is coming to Tyneside to help raise money for Newcastle kids.Read

Main chance to shine

White collar boxing is proving so popular in the North East that the European Boxing Federation are to stage another show at the Stormont Main Social Club in Wrekenton on July 12.Read

Lewis has Scott boxing in his blood

The Scotts from Newbiggin are a well- known boxing family.Read

Dillon's nation title walkover victory

Newcastle's Anthony Dillon has become the North East's only national Novices champion - without pulling on a glove!Read

Blasted with sawn-off shotgun

Ross Gardner, the Geordie son of former British and European heavyweight champion John L Gardner, is to make his pro debut only months after being blasted by a gunman on his doorstep in Tynemouth.Read

Belfast trip is a smash success

Blyth's Empire School of Boxing spent a terrific four days in Belfast as guests of Glean ABC.Read

Anthony is ready for novice finals

Newcastle's Anthony Dillon will fight in the Novices National Finals in Portsmouth on Saturday.Read

Dolan lands gold medal

Birtley schoolboy Billy Dean Dolan struck gold for England in a prestigious Tri-Nations tournament in Edinburgh.Read

Seconds Out

Newcastle lightweight John 'Razor' Watson marked his professional debut with a win on Tommy Conroy's Sporting Club show in Sunderland.Read

Dinner with Teo

A tribute evening for Olympic legend Teofilo Stevenson will be held at the Civic Centre in Newcastle on June 5.Read

Barr is rapped

England international Gary Barr has been disciplined by the ABA. Birtley's Barr attended a hearing in London into incidents abroad when on international duty.Read