Champion Mason is boxing clever - The Redditch Standard

Champion Mason is boxing clever

Redditch Editorial 22nd Feb, 2017   0

HEADLESS CROSS boxer Mason Passey is sitting pretty following the conclusion of the Birmingham & District Cadet Boxing Championships.

Fourteen-year-old Passey, who boxes for the Jewellery Quarter Boxing Club in Birmingham, emerged as district cadet champion to add to the schoolboy district titles he won in both 2015 and 2016.

Passey will now turn his attentions to the England Boxing Cadet Championships, for boxers aged 14 and contested by fighters from all over England.

The competition commences at district level where each champion progresses to the regional rounds and the regional champions then form the final eight boxers who will contest the national stages of the competition.




The Redditch teenager was regional runner-up in both 2015 and 2016 and this year hopes to make it third time lucky.

He said: “I am really happy to have secured the Birmingham title and I am very determined to give my all in the hope of becoming regional champion for the first time in my career.


“We have worked so hard over the last 12 months and I feel I have improved massively since this time last year.”

Jewellery Quarter BC coach Nigel Lakin, of Winyates, said: “Mason has shown tremendous determination this year and has improved beyond all recognition in that time.

“We are very proud of his achievements and also of his dedication to training and competing. Mason makes a 26-mile round trip to the gym in Birmingham city centre three evenings each week and can also be found on the Abbey Stadium track twice a week completing the running portion of his training programme.

“It is safe to say he has earned every success he has so far achieved and any that may come in the future.”

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