Westcountry Boxing was formed in 1989 when Chris Sanigar was granted a professional boxing manager/trainer license. In the past 20 years Westcountry Boxing has become the pioneer for professional boxing in the South West of England. Westcountry Boxing is based at the Bristol Boxing Gym in St Pauls, Bristol where there are top class facilities available for our boxers and members of the public to train. The Bristol Boxing Gym is also the home of the Empire Amateur Boxing Club who have produce top talent such as World Champions Adrian Stone and Glenn Catley as well as British Champion Lee Haskins.

Over the past 17 years Chris Sanigar for Westcountry Boxing has produced the following major Champions:

Ross Hale - British & Commonwealth Champion 1994

Dean Francis - British & European Super Middleweight Champion 1997

Glenn Catley - British Middleweight Champion 1998, WBC World Super Middleweight Champion 2000

Adrian Stone - IBO World Light Middleweight Champion 2000

Scott Dann - British & Commonwealth Middleweight Champion 2004-06

Lee Haskins - Commonwealth Flyweight Champion 2006, British Super Flyweight Champion 2008, Commonwealth Super Flyweight Champion 2009, European Bantamweight Champion 2012

Jamie Arthur - Commonwealth Super Bantamweight Champion 2010

Lee Selby - British and Commonwealth Champion 2011

West Country Boxing formed Community Sports Projects in 2007 coaching children in the local community and now in schools and community centres throughout Bristol and South Gloucestershire.

       

Article created on Tuesday, 13 October 2009 16:44