Welsh Boxing - End of a era - Gareth Bevan dies - Boxing Shed to be demolished.......

Its the end of a era in Welsh Boxing Histroy.

Only last week - Gareth Bevan sadly passed away.

Bevan had run the old Boxing Shed for over 40 years since it opened in the 1960's.

During that time - when he first opened the Club - on the very first day - fate brought him together with a 9 year old Colin Jones came under his wing and was with him through all the amateur days and won Schoolboy and Welsh titles and took him to the Olympics - and stuck with him all through his professional career until the end - and guided him to be one of Wales best ever Champions - in a path of brutal punching destruction cleaning up the British and Commonwealth and European Welterweight titles all by brutal knockouts - and Bevan was in the corner when Jones challenged for the WBC & WBA & IBF World Welterweight Titles against Milton McCory and Donald Curry.

He also trained other Champions the likes of British Champion - Floyd Havard - who fought for the IBF World Lightweight Title.

Bevan retired from running the Boxing Club some years ago - in the 90's - but still lived in the local community.

Sadly he passed away last week.

Quickly following that - it has been revealed the Boxing Club - a mere 14 X 7 metre pre-fabricated building dating back to the 1950's when it was orginally a council building - will be demolished - bringing the end to one of best amateur boxing clubs in Welsh history.

Since 1968 it has produced :

40 Welsh Champions
10 British Title Holders
1 Welsh Boxing Legend

Later this month it is to be demolished.

Colin Jones who now has taken over from his former mentor Garerth Bevan - by running the club himself said - "It will be sad to see this place demolished, it holds a lot of memories for me. It produced so many champions".

But the end of the old era will be replaced by the beginning of a new era for future generations.

While the original boxing shed - and the people who made it - fade into history -

A new state of the art modern boxing gym - will be built on the site - for the future of Welsh Boxing.