That boxer chap is one of ours, flown the nes...............

Anthony Ogogo
Norwich Career: Schoolboy
Current Club:
Date of Birth: 24/11/1988 (Lowestoft)
Nationality: English
Biography

Boxer Anthony Ogogo played football as a schoolboy. He was captain of the Suffolk Schools team and also played for Norwich City until the age of 14 but when it came to a choice between football and boxing he chose boxing.

Ogogo told The Guardian how he got involved with Boxing: "when a couple of my friends fell out during a game of football at school when I was 12. They came to blows but the mad thing was that the smaller, weedier guy got the better of the other guy who was much bigger and stronger. I asked him where he learnt to do that and he said it was at Triple A Boxing Club in Lowestoft. I decided to see what it was all about and because I did not want to go on my own, I dragged along the friend that came off worse in the dust-up! From the moment I walked into the gym I fell in love with it and have been going ever since"

He claimed middleweight silver at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi. In 2010 he also won the Amateur Boxing Association of England title two years after taking the welterweight crown. Then in November he took the middleweight title at the inaugural Great Britain Championships a few days before turning 22

Previously he captained Great Britain's team in the World European and Junior Olympic Tournaments. He won the Junior Olympics in 2004, picked up the Most Outstanding Boxer of the Tournament and was crowned World Under 17 Champion in 2005.

Posted By: DrDublin on August 6th 2012 at 23:03:29

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