Golden Gloves: Dalby PCYC Boxing Club dominates international tournament

For a boxer there’s very few tournaments that mean more than the Golden Gloves, and last week Dalby PCYC Boxing Club showed why they’re a force to be reckoned with.

Fighters from the Dalby PCYC Boxing Club won at the recent Golden Gloves tournament.

Dalby PCYC Boxing Club’s young fighters have continued to show their dominance, going undefeated at last weekend’s Golden Gloves.

Held in Brisbane from July 14-19, the event hosted 430 bouts across five days of action with fighters competing from across Australia alongside international fighters from New Zealand, Naru, Fiji, New Caledonia, Scotland, Sierra Leone and India.

Fighting out of Dalby was Beau Von Pein, Alex Paterson, JJ Hassan, Corey Flemming, and Judd Alderton who all got their hands raised across a series of exciting fights.

The team also improved on last year’s Golden Gloves performance where they came away with three golds and two silvers.

Beau Von Pein is excited after a big win at the Golden Gloves

Coach Andrew Alderton said he was proud of all his fighters but in particular Corey Flemming, who after two impressive wins made the difficult decision to step down due to prior commitments.

“Out of eight fights they won them all and they all got their golden gloves except Corey,” Mr Alderton said.

“Corey and a big appreciation to him stepped out after having two fights because he’d already committed to doing the Kokoda Challenge and so after two fights he stepped up and walked 96km at the Gold Coast.

“I think he would’ve won his final as well.”

Corey Flemming won two in a row before withdrawing before the finals to do the Kokoda Challenge

Mr Alderton said it was great to see the team’s success at such a significant and historical event.

“Golden Gloves is a huge event, it has been running since 1945 and it was one of the biggest thing to win when I was a young fella back in my day and my dad’s day,” he said.

“With the Golden Gloves people come from everywhere, it was like a mini Australian tournament but now it has become international.

“The Americans and the Europeans have now taken interest in it so I think it will be even bigger next year.”

Judd Alderton celebrates a big win at the Golden Gloves.

Mr Alderton said while it was great to see the fighters perform so well in the ring it was how they conducted themselves outside that made him the most proud.

“These guys are just devoted in training and it is bloody unreal, I’m so proud of the whole lot of them,” he said.

“They’ve got massive hearts, they’ve got that ‘I want to win’ attitude, it is something that is hard to train into a boxer and these boys have it.

“They all bounce off each other, promote each other and bring each other up but most of all they are respectful in and out of the ring.”