BOXING
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JACK Littlefield’s rapid rise in boxing shows no signs of slowing down.
Just two weeks after claiming his maiden senior state title - the NSW light-middleweight title - the Orange boxer stepped it up a notch and claimed his first Australian title, winning a unanimous decision over Tasmania’s Brodie Gregson on Saturday night.
Littlefield worked Gregson over for four rounds and, in his father and trainer Dave’s eyes, “won every round” to claim the Australian Amateur Boxing League National Championship under-19 intermediate 71kg gong.
“His NSW title was a senior title, so he had a lot of confidence going back into his own age group for this one,” Dave Littlefield said.
“Jack took it to his opponent’s body in the final and really hurt him early, then went back up top to the head and won every round.”
Dave Littlefield said his son had seriously ramped up his training in the last couple of months in a bid to give himself a better chance at succeeding, after a number of close decisions went against him early in the year.
He put those decisions down, somewhat, to a lack of preparation and said Jack’s diligence and dedication to his new regime had paid dividends with his twin titles.
“He’s had a lot of close spit decisions recently, and some of them we thought he was hard done by, but he really turned things around these last couple of weeks and has trained really hard leading into this one,” Dave Littlefield said.
“In particular his fitness, he’s worked really hard on his fitness and he is fighting a lot smarter, he’s more intelligent in the ring. It’s showed already.”
Littlefield junior won his way through to Saturday’s final with another unanimous decision, easily accounting for Queensland’s Darryl Richardson last Thursday night.