Canterbury R&J’s

Another great tournament held at Woolston, New Zealand Golden Gloves.

What a great weekend at Canterbury Champs last weeeknd. The R&Js did a great job as did all the volunteers. The announcers, certificate righters, time keepers, glove stewards, door staff and doctors all gave up there weekends to makesure the tournament ran smoothly.

Massive thanks to our officials!! With limited number of volunteers locally we are super grateful also to our officials travelling from Gore, Timaru, Dunedin, Wellington, Auckland and New Plymouth! Without you all The South Island Novice Championships would not have been possible. Thanks for your hard work helping officiate 96 bouts over two days! Holy there was some incredibly talent to!!

📸 Photo credit Mattylouisphotography

What better than to kick start the season with 95 bouts.

What an awesome weekend at the South Island Novice Championship, we are extremely grateful for our hosts Woolston Boxing Club for being very accomodating and putting another spectacular tournament. We are always privileged to officiate the fresh talent that the South Island offers. This year we witnessed what we believed to be some of the most impressive performances displayed by debuts and novices, many displaying very seasoned boxing ability. We congratulate all debutants, runner ups and novice champions, it takes a lot of bravery to don the red or blue and step inside the ring and many of you win or lose displayed plenty of that. The year ahead looks very bright on the horizon.

If you or someone you know is keen to get in the ring or sit ringside, but not in red or blue and instead in white and black, get touch with us, we always welcome helping hands.

What a great NZ Nationals. All of us will take away some learning and also some great memories.

NZ National Champs has begun. We have had some great bouts so far. Luckily we have a fantastic amount of officials from the South Island, North Island and a special guest R&J from the USA.
Come down for some spectacular bouts and say hello.

All set up and ready to go. NZ Nationals is the peak and pinnacle for the local R&Js.
Don't forget we also like support,so if you see one of us, wish us good luck as well

As a group of R&Js the New Zealand Nationals is the pinnacle if NZ Amatuer Boxing. We are very proud to have 2 Christchurch based R&Js in Jarrod and Dayle selected for this year's NZ Boxing Nationals to be held in Christchurch. We also have 3 other SI based R&Js attending, John, Peter and Chris.
Good luck to everyone.

A great afternoon of boxing at the Canterbury Champs hosted by Woolston.
There's been some quality fights so far and plenty more to come this evening and tomorrow.