Can't really fault this, on the face of it. Boxxer providing various forms of support to the England amateur setup, some exposure for boxers and prep for the pro ranks if they want it. Nothing explicit here saying Boxxer gets first dibs on signing anyone but presumably there's a gamble that the boxers will speak to them first. https://www.boxxer.com/news/boxxer-...ort-the-sport-at-grassroots-level-nationwide/
......but.....but....he doesn't know what he's doing........and no one watches sky sports anyway.... Just beating the sites few nut jobs to their inevitable response.
Good to see. Matchroom have a similar idea but not a concrete partnership after the signing of Alex Le Guével. I also like what they do visiting an amateur boxing club in the local area of each fight week in the UK and US, and giving away free tickets to participants there. It's all recorded on their Youtube channel. Hopefully Queensberry step up and do something similar to what Matchroom and now Boxxer are doing.
I think the one thing all promoters agreed on during Covid lockdowns, was that amateur boxing is under-served and under-rated as a sport keeping people on the straight and narrow and got zero support at all just as people had nothing to do. I'm sure all promoters put something back to it, publicised or not, but you're right Matchroom and now Boxxer have been a bit more visible. Where rugby union was given hundreds of millions of pounds, as it is effectively part of the business community and lives on funding that it couldn't get for a while, boxing scrapes around for cash and no doubt resorts to some underhand money too. Time for some of the professional ranks' funding to wash around a bit more.
Good news. The amateurs and professionals should work much more together. It benefits everyone in the long run.
