{"id":166954,"date":"2025-09-28T23:46:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T23:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/166954\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T23:46:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T23:46:10","slug":"failsworth-amateur-boxing-show-takes-over-billys-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/166954\/","title":{"rendered":"Failsworth amateur boxing show takes over Billy&#8217;s Bar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  On Point Boxing, which is based at the Ivy Business Centre, took over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theoldhamtimes.co.uk\/news\/25398790.business-booming-new-community-bar-failsworth\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Billy\u2019s Bar<\/a> on Thursday (September 25) for a boxing show to help raise money for the club.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  All the participants were aged 10 to 18 and, for some, it was their first time boxing in public.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Head coach Steve Scullion, 43, said that the event was their \u201cmost successful\u201d night in the club\u2019s five-year history, with 10 boxers taking part along with members of other clubs from the North West.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He said that the young boxers at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/p\/On-Point-Boxing-Fitness-100063681693228\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">On Point<\/a> were &#8220;very grateful\u201d for the opportunity.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>Billy&#8217;s Bar manager Vanessa said there were spectators watching through the windows.(Image: On Point Boxing)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Mr Scullion said: \u201cThey\u2019re buzzing, that&#8217;s the best word I&#8217;ve heard off a couple of them. They can&#8217;t wait for the next one.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cIt&#8217;s all that anticipation. We can tell them and train them as much as we can, but that experience on fight night is something else. When you get in that ring and then you see them breathing, that euphoria is unmatched. They&#8217;re absolutely buzzing.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He added that many of the club\u2019s younger members, who are not old enough to take part yet, were eagerly watching from the sidelines and cannot wait for their turn in the ring in the future.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Apart from being an important milestone for the club, it was also an opportunity for the community to come together.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Billy\u2019s Bar owner Mark Cooney and his daughter Vanessa who manages the bar have supported the club since it was founded and offered the space rent free.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>For some of the boxers, it was their first time in the ring.(Image: On Point Boxing)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Mr Scullion wanted to also be able to give back and help the Cooney\u2019s in their mission of turning the pub into a thriving community hub.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He said: \u201cTying it all in with what I do for the community, and what Mark does for the community in Failsworth, to be able to host in the bar was just brilliant.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In the audience were members of the wider community, not just the boxing community.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Billy\u2019s Bar manager Vannessa, 39, described the evening as \u201camazing\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  She added: \u201cIt was a real, real, big success. They even had people stood outside the pub watching through the windows.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  More information about On Point Boxing and Fitness can be found on its Facebook page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Point Boxing, which is based at the Ivy Business Centre, took over Billy\u2019s Bar on Thursday (September&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-166954","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}