in March won the under-63kg north west category of the England Boxing National Junior Championships<\/a>, is showing all the signs of being a top prospect, according to his coach.\n<\/p>\n\n \u201cHe does as he’s told, he works hard, he does his training \u2013 and he is going to be something special, I know that,\u201d Crossman said.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cHe’s a credit to his parents, he’s so well-mannered, well-polite. He’s left school now and has got a job, and he still comes to his training with the same discipline.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cHe always walks into the gym with a smile on his face.\u00a0His mum and dad are brilliant people, who help out in the gym, and his sister comes down and trains too.\n<\/p>\n
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John Paul and his Wigton ABC colleagues celebrated in Teesside after his gold medal victory (Image: Wigton ABC)\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cThey’re a brilliant family, so supportive of John Paul.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n Crossman said John Paul is due to compete in another Box Cup in September as he aims to fuel his big ambitions in boxing.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe want to get a couple of national titles into him, boxing in the open class championships. I definitely want to try and get him to a senior title,\u201d the coach said.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cThen John Paul wants to turn professional, so I’m not going to stop him doing that.\u00a0I’ve got my professional coaching license, so there’s nothing to stop him doing that here.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cThat\u2019s all in good time though \u2013 we’re not going to rush him.\u00a0When he’s ready we’ll talk about it after that.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cHe’s an inspiration to all the kids at our club.\u00a0He’s going out, he’s winning and they aspire to be just like him. He\u2019s well-mannered, well-schooled and his attitude to boxing is also to be admired.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n Wigton ABC are also preparing for their home show at the Greenhill Hotel on September 30, which Crossman said sold out in under 12 hours.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe’ve got some old boxers and we’ve got some new boxers,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019ve got people like Robbie Pattinson making a comeback, we\u2019ve got Lewis Hand and Eddie Graham coming back.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe’ve got new boxers coming through as well.\u00a0My own son Dalton, who\u2019s just turned 12, is going for his first competitive bout. I’m excited about that as well.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cThere’s loads to look forward to.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n Wigton ABC also run a range of further sessions at the club, including a free health and wellbeing session on Saturday mornings, and a female-only class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Wigton Amateur Boxing Club star, 16, came out on top in the Teesside Box Cup and the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-36657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36657","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=36657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}