{"id":332825,"date":"2025-12-07T13:23:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T13:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/332825\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T13:23:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T13:23:07","slug":"oxfordshire-boxing-academy-celebrates-remarkable-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/332825\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxfordshire boxing academy celebrates &#8216;remarkable&#8217; champion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Didcot Amateur Boxing Academy on Broadway sent a team of juniors to the Warehouse Box Cup in Wales.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  At the November event, its boxers secured four golds and two silvers.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordmail.co.uk\/news\/25351142.oxfordshire-boxing-coach-targets-olympics-major-award\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Oxfordshire boxing coach targets Olympics after MAJOR award<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In addition, youngster Jackson Myers became the junior national champion at 66kg.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  This caps a remarkable turnaround for Mr Myers who only recently recovered from a severe injury and before that lost his first five fights in the ring.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Jackson Myers with a team mate (Image: Didcot Amateur Boxing Academy)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Coach Kieran Davis said: \u201cUnbelievable and remarkable story for this kid.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cHis first five fights he lost; he kept on, trained hard and got the national title.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cNot forgetting seven months ago he picked up an injury where he had a twisted pelvis and it was only six weeks ago that he was told from the physio that he couldn\u2019t box after MRI scans.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Jackson Myers is the new junior champion (Image: Didcot Amateur Boxing Academy)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Mr Myers won his bout by a unanimous points decision and is part of a promising squad at the academy.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Around 300 boxers are part of the overall Didcot team, including national champions and international Box Cup gold medallists.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n    Stay connected to the heart of Oxfordshire for less! \ud83d\uddde\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>Our Flash Sale is ON: get trusted local news for just \u00a36 for 6 months or \u00a326 for all of 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t miss out \u2014 subscribe now! \ud83d\udc47<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RZQMIFMB3r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/RZQMIFMB3r<\/a>\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n    \u2014 Oxford Mail (@TheOxfordMail) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheOxfordMail\/status\/1990709553571270756?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">November 18, 2025<\/a>\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n  Earlier this year, Mr Davis was named the 2025 Male Boxing Coach of the Year by England Boxing at a ceremony in Sheffield, and he has said some of the boxers he coaches could become professionals.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Tipping a couple for the next Olympics in Los Angeles, the coach of the year has also emphasised the importance of the academy being a \u201csafe space\u201d.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He told this paper: \u201cWe\u2019re there for kids when they have nowhere else to go; it is a safe environment.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Didcot Amateur Boxing Academy on Broadway sent a team of juniors to the Warehouse Box Cup in Wales.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-332825","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-boxing","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}