An update on the 3rd the boy boxed in the Tyne, Tees and Wear semi final and won on points it was a comfortable win even though we looked at pulling him out on the Friday as he had cold and flu like symptoms but he insisted that if he was going to lose he wanted to do it in the ring. He boxed on Saturday the 10th in the TT&W final he had to face the same guy he fought for the north east belt which we anticipated to be a very hard contest again he had a cold a blocked nose and to top it off we were waiting for news of a very close family friend who was in a hospice and in his final hours fighting against pancreatic cancer (he lost his brave six month battle at about the same time my son boxed) anyway the boy went out and boxed even though he had all this against him he still went out and won 42 to 29 now he is in the national quarter final in two weeks time so hopefully he will be back to his best and as he says if he can win when everything is against him it gives him a good chance for the next round