\n The Border City Amateur Boxing Club prospect is in action in Nottingham on Sunday in the England Youth Championships national quarter-finals.\n<\/p>\n
\n McKnight, 16, will take on Midlands champion Zack Sewell from Newark Amateur Boxing Club as the young Cumbrian aims to take a step further towards the national title.\n<\/p>\n
\n The Carlisle boxer had been due to box for the North West title two weeks ago, but his opponent from Manchester pulled out.\n<\/p>\n
\n That left McKnight as the regional champion in the 70kg category.\n<\/p>\n
\n He was then due to face the Yorkshire champion in Bridlington last weekend but another withdrawal cost him the chance of another bout.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cIt\u2019s been frustrating for Aiden, as he\u2019s been in training right through the Christmas period,\u201d said Border City coach Ian Archibald.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cIt\u2019s good to get some momentum in these championships but unfortunately we\u2019ve been unlucky with pull-outs.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cBut he has had some really good sparring and is fit and ready to go on Sunday.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Border City Amateur Boxing Club prospect is in action in Nottingham on Sunday in the England Youth…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-399727","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\/399727","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=399727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}