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AFTER more than two decades of turning out champions and colourful fighters, Melton Amateur Boxing Club has shut. Head coach Trevor Booth says the decision to close the Leicestershire club was made after the landlord of their Rosebery Avenue gym decided to sell it for redevelopment.
“There’s nothing we can do about it,” said founder member Booth, approaching his 71st birthday and a coach for around 40 years. “We could have tried to carry on somewhere else, but me and [assistant] Royce [Dawson] are both in our seventies and nobody seemed keen to take it on.”