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stamina, and the contest in the
ring was splendid. The quiet grace
between Walton and Chadwick
after the bout gave credit to their
teams. Again, it was the
Cambridge man who landed most
scoring shots, and this was how
the judges unanimously awarded
the bout to Chadwick. Cambridge
fans were again ecstatic, and
Oxford were in uproar as the
match levelled at 3-3.
It was not the Oxford boxers who
were defeated first, but their
coaching team. Even with the
Olympic champion in the crowd,
the Oxford coach kicked over a
stool, remonstrated with the
judges and stormed out of the
hall. The chaos continued in the
dressing room, until they could be
coaxed back to continue the
match. The contrast in conduct
between boxers and coaching
staff could not have been greater.
Eventually the night was restored
through the MC’s fair-minded
intervention and appeals for
calm, and the boxing was allowed
to resume.
Bout 7 saw new boxer Ssegawa-
Ssekintu Kiwanuka take on
OUABC’s Guevel, a kickboxing
champion. Kiwanuka may have
been the inexperienced boxer, but
Guevel had not anticipated being
hit quite so hard. Kiwanuka
brought himself off the ropes in
the first round and worked so hard
that the initial flurry from Guevel
was halted. An increasingly
desperate fight through the
second round led to a third where
the rules of ‘last man standing’
applied. Kiwanuka was sent into
the third with the encouragement
from the Head Coach that only
Guevel stood in between him and
a Cambridge Boxing Blue. It was
motivation enough. Guevel
seemed incapable of a defence as
Kiwanuka landed one jab after
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another. Out pointed on a
majority decision, the bout
went to Cambridge, who moved
into the lead for the first time in
the match.
The consistency of Cambridge
coaching over the 2009-10 season
came to the fore in the eighth
bout, in a magnificent display of
coaching integrity. Burlton for
Cambridge, in his first boxing
match, stepped up to the plate to
take on OUABC’s Morris. As in the
second bout, the size and
experience of the Oxford boxer
was obvious, although Burlton
ducked and weaved in the first
round with an athleticism that
demonstrated why he was chosen
for the Varsity Team. However,
Morris proved the stronger and,
after clearly losing the first two
rounds, the Head Coach lived up
to the pastoral care he promised
to his boxers from the outset, that
he would not allow them to be
hurt. He allowed his boxer the
dignity and grace not to return for
a third round. In the atmosphere
of Oxford Town Hall that night, the
decision between coach and
boxer can only be applauded, in
the conviction of true
sportsmanship. The match was
now level at 4-4.
So the 103rd Varsity Match came
down to the final bout of the night
with Barton “The Bear” Dear
accepting all of Cambridge hopes
and aspirations, and unfazed by it
all. His ice-cold determination was
noted by team-mate Shanley on
his way to the ring, with the words
“I’m going to win this”. Oxford
chanting of “Oggie! Oggie! Oggie!
Oi! Oi! Oi!” was then replaced with
“Oggie! Oggie! Oggie! Bart! Bart!
Bart!” by one enthusiastic father
who had flown across the world to
witness his son’s magnificent
performance.
After three one-sided rounds,
getting up and under the Oxford
boxer’s greater reach, and scoring
with the minimum of fuss, the
whole room knew that the strong
Texan’s right arm would be raised
for the heavyweight bout, for the
Varsity Match, and the Truelove
Bowl.
Town Vs Gown, 30 January 2010
Ed Chadwick (CUABC) LOST to
(MET POLICE)
Fergal McCool (CUABC) LOST vs.
(MET POLICE)
James Phillips (CUABC) LOST vs.
Martin (MET POLICE)
Rob Pepper (CUABC) LOST vs.
Smith (FULBOURN ABC)
Elliot Chambers (CUABC) WON vs.
Goddard (MET POLICE)
Ssegawa-Ssekintu Kiwanuka WON
vs.Tichanow (ICENI ABC) by K.O
Matt Linsley (CUABC) WON vs. Rob
Liu (CUABC)
Hely Matthews (CUABC) LOST vs.
Clayton (MET POLICE)
Chris Webb (CUABC) WON vs.
(ICENI ABC)
CUABC would like to thank:
Ben Blowes, Richard ‘Dolph’ Hardy
and Lee Mitchell
At Glassworks Gym: Will Davies
and Ben Vincent, &
The PE Department at Fenner’s
Gym, Cambridge.