WHATS NEW IN COVENTRY

COVENTRY BOXING WOULD LIKE TO WISH LES ALLEN CAPITOL GYM'S SUPREMO CONGRATULATIONS ON REACHING HIS 50TH BIRTHDAY THIS WEEK NICE ONE LES.

I WENT UP TO THE CAPITOL GYM LAST WEEK AND HAD A HALF HOUR CHAT WITH  ONE OF COVENTRY'S FAVOURITES ALAN PHILLIPS.  COVENTRY BOXING FANS WOULD NEED NO INTRODUCTION TO ALLAN THEY WOULD KNOW HIM AS THE TRAINER WHO HAS TAKEN A LOT OF OUR FIGHTERS THROUGH THEIR PACES NOTABLY DEAN PITHIE AND UP UNTILL A FEW MONTHS AGO ONE OF COVENTRY'S FAVOURITE SONS ANDY HALDER. ALAN IS STILL A BIG PART OF THE TRAINING SCHEME IN COVENTRY EVEN IF YOU DONT BOX GET UP TO THE GYM AND GET SOME ONE ON ONE TRAINING BY A TOP MAN.

AS MOST OF COVENTRY'S BOXING FANS KNOW CAPITOL PROMOTIONS AS WE USED TO KNOW IT IS NO LONGER IN BUSINESS THE BIG MAN KEVIN HOUSTON HAS TAKEN A DESERVED BREAK (LET US HOPE HE COMES BACK SOON KEVIN PUT COVENTRY BACK ON THE MAP AS A BIG BOXING CITY) .  JACK WEAVER IS NOW RUNNING A GYM SOME WHERE IN RUGBY AND HE MANAGES A LOT OF THE BOXERS FROM THE CAPITOL STABLE UNDER THE BANNER OF SHAKESPEARE PROMOTIONS.  I ALSO WENT UP THEIR GYM LAST WEEK BUT THERE WAS NO ONE AROUND WE HAVE HEARD THAT CARL WRIGHT HAD TO PULL OUT OF THEIR NEXT SHOW WHICH SHOULD HAVE BEEN ON TONIGHT OVER PERSONAL PROBLEMS LETS HOPE CARL CAN SORT THEM OUT AND GET BACK TO BOXING AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, THIS WAS A DOUBLE BLOW AS ANDY HALDERS BOUT COULD NOT GO AHEAD DUE TO THE CANCELLATION. JACK WEAVER IS A GOOD MANAGER AND A GOOD MATCH MAKER LET US HOPE HE BOUNCES BACK AND GIVES THE FANS SOME GOOD SHOWS IN THE FUTURE GOOD LUCK WITH SHAKESPEARE PROMOTIONS.

LES ALLENS CAPITOL GYM IS NOW BOUNCING BACK AND THE BOXING SIDE IS JOINTLY RUN BY OWEN DELARGY AND HE HAS SIGNED UP A LOT OF GOOD PROSPECTS INCLUDING JASON CALLUM IT IS ALSO NICE TO HEAR THAT A LOT OF OUR FAVOURITES ARE ALSO TRAINING THERE ANDY EGAN TONY CONROY BAZ CAREY AND TOP MAN NEIL SIMPSON LET US HOPE THEY CAN PUT A LOT OF GOOD SHOWS TOGETHER FOR THE COVENTRY BOXING FANS GOOD LUCK FOR THE FUTURE.