{"id":673165,"date":"2026-07-04T09:11:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T09:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/673165\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T09:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T09:11:09","slug":"bradford-boxing-quartet-hail-solid-impact-for-helping-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/673165\/","title":{"rendered":"Bradford boxing quartet hail Solid Impact for helping them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Bilal, who\u00a0has\u00a0been attending the club regularly for\u00a0over\u00a0three years, said: \u201cIt\u2019s been good for all of us lads because we\u2019ve just been training, working hard, fighting and just getting away from all the negative stuff that&#8217;s out there.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cIt\u2019s\u00a0been\u00a0really good\u00a0for us.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Jack, another regular at\u00a0Solid Impact, said that it had helped him\u00a0in various important aspects of his life.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He insisted:\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s taught me\u00a0discipline, commitment and it\u2019s\u00a0just\u00a0helped me as a person overall.\u201d\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Part of the set up at Solid Impact. (Image: Iona Fixter)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  All the lads\u00a0we spoke to\u00a0emphasised\u00a0the importance of their head coach\u00a0Dean\u00a0Hunt,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk\/news\/26244860.bradford-boxing-gym-teaching-sport-values-show\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">when\u00a0it came to their many successes since joining the club<\/a>.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Zulkif said:\u00a0\u201cI\u2019ve been here since the end of 2023 and I\u2019ve had all my fights with the gym.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cI\u2019ve had seven fights; one loss but six wins, and I wouldn\u2019t have been able to do it without Deano.\u201d\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Finally, Jenson\u00a0said:\u00a0\u201cI joined here two years\u00a0ago,\u00a0and\u00a0I\u2019ve\u00a0learned a lot of stuff here.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cI\u2019ve\u00a0won quite a few fights and\u00a0I\u2019ve\u00a0had a title bout.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cI won that, and I\u00a0wouldn\u2019t\u00a0have been able to do it without Deano and the team.\u201d\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  And Hunt&#8217;s own son, Lucas, often joins his dad in working out at Solid Impact.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He fights out of Rourkey&#8217;s Gym and has just won the Yorkshire title at his weight category.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bilal, who\u00a0has\u00a0been attending the club regularly for\u00a0over\u00a0three years, said: \u201cIt\u2019s been good for all of us lads because&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":673166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-673165","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\/673165","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=673165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}