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Selby leads GB Boxing team into European Championships

London Olympian Andrew Selby will be bidding to defend his flyweight title as he leads a 13-strong GB Boxing team at the 2013 European Champions...

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Ogogo starts professional career with emphatic win

Great Britain’s Anthony Ogogo introduced himself to the professional ranks in emphatic style with a second-round knockout of Kieron Gray at the ...

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McCracken wishes Olympic champion Campbell all best

GB Boxing performance director Rob McCracken has wished Luke Campbell all the best as the Olympic champion pursues a professional career with Ma...

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Adams eyeing return to the ring following injury lay-off

Olympic champion Nicola Adams admits that while a hand injury has left her frustrated, it could prove to be a blessing in disguise when she retu...

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McCracken claims boxers will learn from World Series setback

Great Britain performance director Rob McCracken is adamant his charges will emerge much better from the experience of the World Series of Boxin...

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Biography

James DeGale represented Great Britain at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games in the Middleweight boxing event, winning gold. In the quarterfinals, he beat a former Olympic gold medalist from Athens (Bakhtiyar Artayev) and in the semi-final once again beat the Irishman Darren Sutherland (prior to this latest meeting the boxers had fought five times with Sutherland winning four and DeGale only one). In the final DeGale won, a scrappy and bad tempered affair against the Cuban Emilio Correa who was deducted two points in the first round for biting DeGale's shoulder. Nicknamed ‘Chunky’, DeGale started boxing aged 10 when his father and grandfather took him along to his first boxing club, Trogan. His career took off with flying colours as he won numerous junior championships.