Spennymoor Town Council awarded Community Grants to Alfie \u2018Bomber\u2019 Ellis 11 from Spennymoor, and Charlie \u2018Junior Silk\u2019 Hodgson, 15 from Middlestone Moor, to enable them to travel to Canada and compete in the prestigious Brampton Cup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The two fighters excelled in the tournament, with Alfie, the youngest member of the team, boxing three times in three days to take the gold medal, dominating each match-up against Canada\u2019s finest in his age group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Charlie won through to an incredibly tough final, but he showed his mettle, dug deep and ground out a well-deserved unanimous points decision to claim victory. In a classic back and fourth contest, Charlie\u2019s skill and endurance ensured he came out on top.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The boys, who represent Brandon Boxing Club, helped their club secure The Brampton Cup, becoming the first British club to ever do so in over 40 years of the boxing competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is Alfie\u2019s second competitive season and he\u2019s undefeated in eight contests, winning The Monstown Box Cup in Ireland last year and will be looking to defend his title later this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Alfie said: \u201cWhat an experience to compete with my club mates in the Brampton Cup and come away with a victory. Boxing is a great way to exercise, compete and learn discipline, but being able to travel and compete against boxers from across the globe is also fantastic.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThank you to the Town Council for the grant funding. It was brilliant to be able to represent the town and Brandon Boxing Club in this prestigious contest.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Charlie is from the famous Hodgson boxing family, with his father, uncles and grandad all boxing and coaching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Charlie said: \u201cThe contest was fierce and the competition were skilled, so it was great to come away with a hard won victory.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMe and Alfie loved representing Spennymoor on the international stage and hopefully we\u2019ll get to do it again in the future.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Spennymoor Town Council awarded Alfie Ellis and Charlie Hodgson individual community grants of \u00a3200 in January, to help them in their efforts to raise money to compete in the Canadian competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Town Mayor, Cllr Ian Geldard, said: \u201cSpennymoor has a wealth of sporting talent and the Town Council does all it can to help these talented young people fulfil their dreams and their potential.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cCongratulations to Alfie and Charlie for their incredible performances. I look forward to watching their progress as they develop their boxing abilities and, no doubt, win more competitions.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n During the trip, the boys also visited Toronto, the CN Tower and Niagara Falls, representing themselves, their club and local area with honour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Brandon Boxing Club coach, Alex Oliver, said: \u201cThe Spennymoor lads did themselves proud and it was a pleasure to not only watch them box, but see how well they conducted themselves away from home.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cBrandon Boxing Club would like to thank Spennymoor Town Council for its support. Without it these trips would not be possible, creating memories for life for these young lads.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Two Spennymoor prizefighters are celebrating an historic win on the other side of the Atlantic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17951,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spennymoor-tc.gov.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17949"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spennymoor-tc.gov.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spennymoor-tc.gov.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spennymoor-tc.gov.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spennymoor-tc.gov.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spennymoor-tc.gov.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17950,"href":"https:\/\/spennymoor-tc.gov.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17949\/revisions\/17950"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spennymoor-tc.gov.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spennymoor-tc.gov.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spennymoor-tc.gov.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spennymoor-tc.gov.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}