This weekend three more fighters from Burmantofts ABC could become national champions.

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Lightweight Conor Loftus already holds a Novice ABA title.
For club leader Phil Sellers it would be a crowning glory if Akeel Khaliq, 12, Qais Ashfaq, 16, and Ikhtsham 'Tyson' Lone, 17, join him on the podium.

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In 2006 the club, set up by the now deceased Brian Rose 25 year earlier, was forced to move after the demolition of the Burmantofts Sports and Social Club.

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Things looked bleak until, at the 11th hour, a new site was found in the old Burton's factory just up the road in Harehills.

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Phil, coaches Gary Rose (Brian's son) and Shaun Hendry and caretaker
Frank Johnson moved it into an old suit warehouse on Compton Road.
It was touch and go at first with just 10 boxers on the cards.

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Phil, 39, who is a highways supervisor by day, said: "We've really got to thank Tony Warren, Arcadia's facilities manager who own the building, for letting us come here.

"We've now got 40 boxers on the cards and six coaches.

"Every coach here has boxed. When you've done it yourself (boxing) it's hard to let go.

"When we were kids the old club, that was our place, so I was sad to see it go.

"But now we're here in Harehills I wouldn't stop it for nothing."
In 2008 Seacroft-born multi-millionaire Rob Jarrett stepped in with a £15,000-a-year sponsorship and donated a minibus.

The club opens Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays (6pm-8pm) for boxing and also runs circuit training on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Qais, from Holt Park, trains under Martin Bateson and has been at the club for two years. The bantamweight switch-hitter is on the assessment team for the GB Squad.

He's picked to fight in the Youth World Championships in April which could lead to qualification for September's Junior Olympics.

The Otley Prince Henry's Grammar School student, who fights in Barnsley tonight, said: "It's a very big gym with a great atmosphere and good facilities. There's a buzz about the place.

"I was at another gym, but that closed, so I'd give a special thanks to Phil Sellers for letting me come here."

And with that he was back with the lads training under the expert eye of coaches Tony Foster, John Dyer, James Hughes and Colin Manners.
By the entrance Frank, 69, is putting the finishing touches to a third boxing ring.

He said: "When (promoter) Frank Maloney came here he said it was the biggest gym outside London.

"We're blooming and getting better fighters coming through.

"You've always got that aggro when your wife says 'I'd wish you'd set up a bed down there, you're never home'.

"But the coaches give their time up after work to come down and train the lads, so it's the least I can do."