Tag Archive | Sunderland East End

Three Sunderland ABC schoolboys march on

Sunderland ABC’s Joel Hassan, Jamie Cockburn and Reece Amir all became North East champions last Sunday, and just one week later will look to make a move on the national title. Tomorrow (Sunday February 3rd) Everton Park Sports Centre plays host to the pre-quarter-final stage of the schoolboy ABA’s between Merseyside and Chesire and the […]

The East End ABC: An Evening Of Amateur Boxing

*Story courtesy of David Waites and SportsByte.sunderland.ac.uk It was a night of spectacular boxing from all ages as the Best Western Roker Hotel held The East End ABC night of Amateur Boxing, with the highly anticipated heavyweight bout between Phil Thompson and Sean Pendleton the main event on the card. The first fight was between […]

Lambton Street duo march on in junior ABAs

Both Anthony Austin and Bobby Begg became North East champions on Saturday and earned their place in the ABA national quarter-final after impressive victories in Newbiggin. For Begg it was a third fight in the space of seven days, and a second in the space of 24 hours. However, this clearly did not hamper him […]

All-Sunderland clash the best of the day at junior ABAs

Newbiggin hosted the preliminary rounds of the junior ABA’s on saturday and two Sunderland fighters produced the fight of the day. Leon Birley (Hetton) was victorious over Luke Thompson (Sunderland East End) in a mouth-watering 70kg quarter-final clash that could have gone either way. Birley (above in the blue) was the far more experienced of […]