One left in the Youth ranks for Priory Park
Christian Amendola will try to keep Priory Park Boxing Club in the England Youth Championship on Sunday afternoon.
Amendola is the Dudley-based gym's last hope after club-mates Sam Gwilt and Finbar O'Flaherty were eliminated last weekend,
The first national tournament on the unpaid boxing calendar for 2016 continues in Stoke-on-Trent at the Wallace Centre, which will also host the West Midlands finals the following Sunday.
A single age range - born in either 1998 or 1999 - houses the hopefuls, who have been split into weight classes before being whittled down. Bouts take place over three, three minute rounds.
Amendola has benefitted from byes to this point at 60kg but is now part of a four-pronged division, so will have to box both Stoke dates to claim the West Midlands title.
He will first tackle Jamie Edwards, from Triumph in Coventry, with the winner to meet either Harry Shore or Tom Collins the following weekend.
Both Gwilt and O'Flaherty went out to Shropshire opposition in box-offs at the at the Irish Centre in Digbeth, Birmingham, last Saturday night.
There was also heartbreak in the second city for Wolverhampton's Lauren Johnson, who was defeated for the England Boxing middleweight title against the army's Alex Turbitt.
'The Black Widow,' a 2012 senior ABA national champion at 75kg, now competes out of Wodensborough after starting out at Walsall Wood.
Turbitt was crowned the inaugural champion on an exciting points split decision after four twos. Both ladies had laid it all on the line in a war.
Gwilt was defeated in a battle of the southpaws at 56kg with Donnington's Ryan Tyrer, despite staging a late salvo after a sluggish start.
There wasn't much to pick between the two left-handers, with Gwilt in the running after a split over Wednesbury's Vinnie Court at Donnington the previous weekend.
Tyrer bossed the opening session which cost Gwilt, who regrouped in the corner between rounds and got on the attack.
The tide started to turn near the end of the second as Gwilt moved in for the kill, but Tyrer used his guile to evade sustained flurries and tie him up where possible. It led him to a unanimous win.
O'Flaherty came out hell for leather against Wellington's Idris Mohammed, who was boxing his third Youth bout in six days after getting the rough end of the draw.
Toe-to-toe exchanges suited his game style in the first round but, as proceedings progressed, the tall and rangy Mohammed managed to peg him back off the jab.
The game O'Flaherty kept on coming as both combatants started to tire, but Mohammed maintained his control of the centre of the ring to nudge home on a split.
Reigning European Youth champion Akash Tuqir will definitely feature at Stoke, in action for the first time since his exploits in Poland.
The slick southpaw has benefitted from byes so far and will first tackle Burton's Shazad Amran at 52kg, with a fresh Zach Davis awaiting the winner.
The 17-year-old, who represents Merridale in Wolverhampton, is looking to claim a national club title in his last year competing as a Youth.
