The Royal Air Force boxing team made history on the south coast after winning the Inter Services team boxing title in Portsmouth, their first since 1972.<\/p>\n
In the biggest boxing showcase on the military boxing calendar, the RAF won four of the seven bouts that counted towards the team title, with vice-captain Sergeant Cameron Lewis winning the deciding bout when he beat the Army’s Corporal Aaron Doherty by a unanimous decision.<\/p>\n
A traditionally dominant British Army team came into the night with a 2-0 lead over their competitors with two walkover bouts to begin the evening.<\/p>\n
But besides Terri-Leigh Stewart’s win in the women’s lightweight division over her RAF opponent Carys Mainwaring, which didn’t count towards the team title, the Army shockingly didn’t win a single bout counting towards the team effort.<\/p>\n
The home team, the Royal Navy, weren’t able to field enough boxers on the night to contend for the team title due to injuries and availability.<\/p>\n
However, the Navy were still able to put on a show for their home crowd supporters with their three boxers, Marine William Winwood, Marine Connor Fanning and Marine Dominik Zieba, winning their fights.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Full resultsMen’s 60kg: Pte Lucas Forinton (Army) v AS1(T) Jaydon Johnson (RAF)Winner: AS1(T) Jaydon Johnson by split decision.**Women’s 60kg: Cpl Terri-Leigh Stewart (Army) v Cpl Carys Mainwaring (RAF)Winner: Cpl Terri-Leigh Stewart by unanimous decisionMen’s 62.5kg: LCpl Leon Moulds (Army) v AS1 Ky-Mani Coleman (RAF)Winner: AS1 Ky-Mani Coleman by split decisionMen’s 65kg: Pte Dylan Swales (Army) v AS1(T) Blaine Lambert (RAF)Winner: AS1(T) Blaine Lambert by split decisionMen’s 70kg: Mne William Winwood (Navy) v Cpl Arran Devine (RAF)Winner: Mne William Winwood by split decisionMen’s 75kg: Spr Marley Devitt (Army) v Mne Connor Fanning (Navy)Winner: Mne Connor Fanning by split decisionMen’s 80kg: LCpl Aaran Doherty (Army) v Sgt Cameron Lewis (RAF)Winner: Sgt Cameron Lewis by unanimous decision\u00a0Men’s 85kg: LCpl Leon Harris (Army) v Mne Dominik Zieba (Navy)Winner: Mne Dominik Zieba by unanimous decision<\/p>\n
** Bout not counting towards overall team result.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Royal Air Force boxing team made history on the south coast after winning the Inter Services team…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":567501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-567500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567500","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=567500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}