Guernsey’s Gage Demoor attempts to duck under Andrew Kremner’s right hand during Saturday’s Open Show. (Picture by Adrian Miller, 0540724)
AN UNNAMED ticket tout has been barred from attending future Amalgamated Boys’ Club boxing promotions.
The individual, whom the ABC have refused to name, was found to have sold the £20 tickets for up to £30.
‘We took great offence for what this person was doing,’ said the open event organiser and ABC club secretary, Paul Ferbrache. ‘We will be barring the person from further boxing shows and anybody thinking that they can make a profit out of selling tickets will also be banned from boxing.’
There have been criticisms that the number of tickets an individual can buy should be limited to allow more people the chance to go.
In reply, Ferbrache said that the club would look into that but he sees no point of doing it differently.
‘We’ll talk about it at a committee level, but at the moment we’ve got no intention of changing,’ he said.
‘I don’t see any point in it because if you go up there to get four tables for your friends, it just means that the queue will be bigger [if you cannot do that].’
Ferbrache also said that Saturday has passed off with only one minor incident that saw someone ejected from the hall.
Meanwhile, the club have decided to go ahead with two Open Shows next year following Saturday’s event, which was hailed as the best ever locally.
At the Ozannes-sponsored show, more than 800 boxing fans crammed into Beau Sejour’s Sir John Loveridge Hall to witness Guernsey come from behind to beat a tough North of England Select side.
The atmosphere was electric all night.
‘You can’t beat that – it was absolutely magic,’ said Ferbrache.
‘There’s nothing that can top it and we can’t improve on it. We’ve just got to keep going.
‘It’s become the biggest indoor sporting event on the island.’
Ferbrache confirmed that there would be a show the same time next year and for the first time, a second show on Saturday 4 October.
The tickets for this year’s show were sold out in a record 29 minutes when they went on sale a couple of weeks ago.
The energetic crowd really came to life when Matt Jennings came in for his cruiserweight re-match with Sonny Jury.
Dubbed the ‘Brawl in the Hall’, Jennings put in a punishing display to win the four-round bout on points.
The former national junior champion was a quality opponent for the 31-year-old Jennings and he helped create an ideal finish to an outstanding evening.
Guernsey coach Graham Guilbert was full of praise for the Newbury fighter.
‘Jennings was trying to put him away but he just couldn’t – Jury was very durable,’ said Guilbert.
‘Matt was hitting him hard. He said he was hitting him as hard as he could.’
The performance puts Jennings in good stead for when he enters the Senior ABA Championships at the end of the season.
His first round is the Western Championships on Saturday 29 March.
If he is successful in that and the second round, he will go through to the quarter-finals where he will meet the southern champion which very well could be Jury.
Guilbert says that going by his boxer’s performance at the weekend, a place in the national final could be on the cards.
‘Jennings was humming and you would have had to have hit him with a piece of four-by-two to have stopped him,’ he said.
‘He was really up for it and if he keeps it up, I reckon he’ll get to the finals.’
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