IT’S two o’clock on a Tuesday afternoon and Maxi Hughes is outside in his garden picking the apples that have fallen from his apple tree. It’s a laborious,
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Lewis Crocker wins a cracker against Deniz Ilbay
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Lewis Crocker topped MTK’s bill at the Bolton Whites Hotel and maintained his 100 per cent record. The wide margin of victory over Cologne’s
Deniz Ilbay at the conclusion of 10 highly entertaining rounds, though, fails to fully tell the story and certainly doesn’t reflect the toughness of an opponent who just wouldn’t succumb.
After a close couple of early rounds, Lewis looked to have made the breakthrough late in the third when a crunching left to the body and a follow-up right sent Ilbay to one knee. At that point the odds on it being an early finish looked particularly favourable, but no one had seemingly told the man from the Rhine. He came storming back late in the fourth, to such a degree that Crocker was left holding after being tagged by a weighty right.
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An online campaign group with thousands of members has quickly emerged on social media.
One of those to launch the campaign, strength and conditioning coach Emma Brennan who runs the Alpha Training NI facility in Carryduff, spoke to the News Letter about the negative consequences of keeping gyms closed.
While her facility has been allowed to remain open for elite athletes, including the up-and-coming lightweight boxer Paul Hyland Jnr, she said “ordinary people” also need access to training facilities – particularly in the winter months.
“It’s amazing that the government are still supporting us to train elite athletes but ordinary people need to be looking after their fitness and their health as well,” she told the News Letter.