Boxing: Craigmillar youths win titles

Three Craigmillar boxing young guns won youth and junior titles in the 2012 Eastern District Youth Championships held in Cardenden, Fife.
By The Newsroom
Published 19th Jan 2012, 11:58 BST

In an all-Edinburgh light-flyweight 1998 class title clash, Craigmillar’s Brandon Hunter beat Leith Victoria’s Tyler Gibson while Hunter’s light-flyweight clubmate Joe Murray notched up title No. 2 by defeating Fifer Nathan Levers in the 1997 48kg final. Craigmillar welterweight Brodie Robertson made it a hat-trick of title triumphs by seeing off the challenge of Denbeath challenger Lewis Fleming in their 1995 70kg title joust.

Other results: 1994 60kg: Martin Buist (East Lothian) bt James Millar (Craigmillar). 1995 63kg: Tom Barrel (East Lothian bt Brad Grieve (Cardenden). 1996 46kg: Matt McHale (Meadowbank) beat Keil Spouse (Chirnside). 1997 60kg: Paul Greenhorn (Kelty) bt Shaun Cunningham (Bronx). 1998 48kg: Mathew Cunningham (East Lothian) bt Abu Ali Siddique (Leith Victoria). 1999 42kg: N Shaw (Bronx) bt J McDonald (1314). 2000 34kg: Ewan Wilkie (Bronx) bt H Cunningham (Bronx). 2000 38kg: B McLaughlin (Midlothian) bt C McBeth (Bronx).

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