European Amateur Boxing Championship starting in June 17 at Ankara Turkey

[sportofkings]

Originally Posted by bobalachko

Michael mcDonagh at 60kg
Willy Mc Laughlin at 69kg

Two good choices Mclaughlin is as experienced as they come and Mcdonagh is very talented in spite of being only 17.

[Zacker]

Originally Posted by sportofkings

Lomachenko is almost a shoe in to win gold if hes competing at 60 kg.

He is not competing in Ankara I think. He plans to compete in Baku, though (WC).

[Nosbor]

What do you call Two Africans, a Turk, an Arab and an Albanian?

































The Swedish boxing team!















What do you call seven Armenians?


















The Swedish wrestling team.

[Zacker]

Originally Posted by Nosbor

What do you call Two Africans, a Turk, an Arab and an Albanian?

The Swedish boxing team!




What do you call seven Armenians?

The Swedish wrestling team.

How'd ya now that? You must be Swedish.

[BUSTER]

gb squad selected from:-

charlie edwards (49kg)
Khalid Yafai, Flyweight (52Kg), Birmingham, England
Andrew Selby, Flyweight (52Kg), Barry, Wales
Tommy Stubbs, Flyweight (52Kg), Oldham, England
Gamal Yafai, Bantamweight (56Kg), Birmingham, England
Luke Campbell, Bantamweight (56Kg), Hull, England
ain Weaver, Bantamweight (60Kg), Ferndown, England
Martin Ward, Lightweight (60Kg), Romford, England
Thomas Stalker, Lightweight (64Kg), Liverpool, England
Scott Cardle, Light-welterweight (64Kg), Lytham, England
Bradley Saunders, Light-welterweight (69Kg), Sedgefield, England
Callum Smith, Welterweight (69Kg), Liverpool, England
Fred Evans, Welterweight (69Kg), Cardiff, Wales
Anthony Ogogo, Middleweight (75Kg), Lowestoft, England
Obed Mbwakango, Light-heavyweight (81 Kg), London, England
****** Baister, Heavyweight (91Kg), Sunderland, England
Danny Price, Heavyweight (91Kg), Scarborough, England
Simon Vallily, Heavyweight (91Kg), Middlesbrough, England

[Artani]

MONTENEGRO :

75 kg - Bojan Pesic
81 kg - Bosko Draskovic
91 kg - Marko Radonjic

[Artani]

Macedonia Team

54 kg - Veli Mumin
75 kg - Fatlum Zhuta
+91 kg - Primislav Dimovski

[kenmore]

Who's Russia sending as a heavyweight? The same guy that won the Euro championship last year? Can anyone tell me how good or bad that dude is?

[Zacker]

Originally Posted by kenmore

Who's Russia sending as a heavyweight? The same guy that won the Euro championship last year? Can anyone tell me how good or bad that dude is?

Yes, it's likely to be Kuzmin since he won the russian title a couple of weeks ago. There is room for improvement but he's pretty young still. He's among the best in europe.

[moorser]

I reckon barnes ,nevin , mcloughlin ,o'neil and ward will medal for ireland with hopefully a couple of gold . i wouldnt rule out sheahan and conlon either if they get a decent draw !

[Mendoza]

Originally Posted by Zacker

Yes, it's likely to be Kuzmin since he won the russian title a couple of weeks ago. There is room for improvement but he's pretty young still. He's among the best in europe.

Kuzman has great size, power, and some skills. He needs to work on his late round stamina a tad. Actually there are two young up and comming super heavies. Both Ivan Dychko, and Flip Hrgovic are very young and loaded with upside. Dycko might win it.

[Zacker]

Russia is saving their A-squad for the world championships.

Their team for Ankara:
Weight category 49 kg Belik Galanov / 1989, Moscow, Armed Forces, MS /
Weight category 52 kg Georgy Balakshin / 1980, Sakha / Yakutia - Moscow Region., Dynamo, ZMS /
Weight category 56 kg Dmitry Polyansky / 1989, Belgorod, Dynamo, MSIC /
Weight category 60 kg Ildar Vaganov / 1985, Moscow region., MS /
Weight category 64 kg Maxim Ignatiev / 1986, Moscow - Novosibirsk, Dynamo, MSIC /
Weight category 69 kg Islam Edisultanov / 1985, Chechen, Dynamo, MSIC /
Weight category 75 kg Maxim Koptyakov / 1987, Khanty-Mansiysk - Bashkortostan, Dynamo, MSIC /
Weight category 81 kg Nikita Ivanov / 1986, Moscow - Tambov, 1986, Dynamo, MS /
Weight category 91 kg Abdulhamid Nurmagomedov / 1987, Moscow - Tambov, Dynamo, MS /
Weight category +91 kg Mohammed Omar / 1989, Dagestan, Dynamo, MS /

[mattdonnellon]

In the next few days I intend to inflict my views on the upcoming euro championships on this thread, starting with the 49kg division.
My Euro Ratings;
1 BARNES
2 Ayrapetyan Russia
3 Mamishzade Azer
4 Galonov Russia
5 de la Neive Spain
6 Pehlivan Turkey
7 Shkarubo Ukraine
8 Alizade Azerbaijan
9 Lakato Hun
10 Beccu France

Paddy will be a big favourite and rightly so as his chief opponents are the guys he beat to win the last Euros. Ayrapetyan is not going as Russia hold back their number ones for the Worlds(a good idea?) and the number three from Azerbaijan who Paddy beat in the Moscow games fina, Mamishzade won his national final at fly. If he doesn't go at l/fly then he'll be replaced by Alizade, the guy that Burnett split the world and junior Olympic gold and silver between them.
He's the best of the young crop as well as Lakatos from Hungary, while Pehlivan, the Turk and de la Nieve representing Spain, could all figure. Soghomonyan, the new kid from Armenia and Charlie Edwards from England will probably ruffle a few feathers.
I'm assuming that old warriors like Danyelia (Armenia) and Masczyk (Poland) will no longer be there.
Still for me Paddy at his best will win with the Russian Galonov the big danger. The only caviat I have is that Barnes needs to get the competitive ring-rust out of his system with a handier first fight or two.

[mattdonnellon]

Euro fly-52kg
1 Aloyan Russia
2 Yafai UK
3 Oubaali France
4 Balakshin Russia
5 Abdulhamidov Azerbaijan
6 Picardi Italy
7 Chigayev Ukraine
8 Conlon Ireland
9 Cioaca Romania
10 Formanek Slovakia

Aloyan, the big favorite wont be at the games so it's all to play for, the Azerbaijan beat Dec Geraghty 9-1 so he's good as is the Russian rep Balakshin, a three time Euro champ but he's 31 now and slipping. The Frenchman was JJ Nevins partner at Paris United and made the individual 54kg final and Picardi lost to Nevin big-time in the WSB, while Yafai is my pick with the young Romanian the dark horse.
Last year Conlon under-performed in the Commonwealth where Stubbs won and got robbed by the follies of the computer scoring system in the Ulsters only last January but the word from Ulster is that he was a bit special. He sure proved it, winning the toughest of all weights in the Nationals(Molloy, Phelan, Burnett, Geraghty!) and has been unbeaten since beating Stubbs among others. I think he can beat anyone up to Yafai, hope I'm right it would be some fairy-tale.

[Nosbor]

Great weightclass evaluations!!!