\n Members of Greenock Boxing Club will take on boxers from Ontario-based club Blue Water Boxing on May 5.\n<\/p>\n
\n The fights are yet to be finalised, but nine male and three female boxers will travel across the Atlantic to compete against fighters in Sarnia.\n<\/p>\n
\n Greenock boxing coach Graham Baillie told the Tele they\u2019re looking forward to the event.\n<\/p>\n
\n He said: \u201cAll 12 will be fighting.\n<\/p>\n
\n “We’re waiting the confirmation, but it’s likely that we\u2019ll be boxing in two shows – one on the Friday and one on the Saturday.\n<\/p>\n
\n “It’ll be back to back boxing.”\n<\/p>\n
\n The clubs have met in Canada before, back in 2018, but most of the fighters making the trip in were not part of that trip.\n<\/p>\n
\n Graham says the club is proud to have a strong female contingent flying this year, reflecting growing interest in the sport among women.\n<\/p>\n
\n The fights promise to be hotly contested, just as they were when Greenock hosted the Canadians in last year.\n<\/p>\n
\n Graham said: \u201cWe always look for close contests.\n<\/p>\n
\n “We never want it to be a walk over or whatever it would be considered within the sport. You want it to be competitive fights.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cScotland, particularly Boxing Alliance Scotland, prides itself on having really fair judges, and we’re just hoping for similar when we get ourselves over to Canada.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n Graham said the team are looking forward to seeing the venues hosting the fights after an incredible experience last time around.\n<\/p>\n
\n He added: \u201cThe last time we went to Canada they hosted us in an aircraft hangar, which was amazing.\n<\/p>\n
\n “For the fight, it was incredible. The photographs are beautiful.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cIt’s quite big and glamorous.\n<\/p>\n
\n “We hand out trophies. They hand out gold belts. It’s pretty cool when you’re there.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Members of Greenock Boxing Club will take on boxers from Ontario-based club Blue Water Boxing on May 5.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-554642","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\/554642","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=554642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}