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WILLASTON AMATURE BOXING CLUB,BIRKENHEAD.

BOXING TRAINER,,,RAYMOND BELLIS, AGE 73

I AM WRITING THIS ARTICLE ON BEHALF OF MY DAD,WHO HAS BEEN A BOXER CUM BOXING TRAINER AT THE WILLASTON BOXING CLUB FOR 46 YEARS,HE HAS DEDICATED HIS WHOLE LIFE TO BOXING,IN THE EARLIER YEARS MY DAD ALSO TRAINED WITH TWO GREAT TRAINERS (MAXI ROY ) AND  (PETER MCCANN) AND HAD SOME GREAT YEARS TOGETHER,AND PRODUCED SOME OUTSTANDING  BOXERS, AND HAD SOME FANTASTIC BOXING SHOWS,EVEN THOUGH NOW MY DAD HAS AGED A LITTLE LOL,MY DAD, STILL IS DEDICATED TO BOXING AS HE AS ALWAYS HAS BEEN,AND NOW AFTER EVERYTHINK HE HAS DONE FOR THESE YOUNG MEN AND THE BOXING CLUB,HE HAS HAD TO RESIGN DUE TO A FEW TRAINERS IN THE CLUB TREATING HIM IN DISGUSTING AND CRUEL MANNER, I THOUGHT PEOPLE LIKE THIS WERE SUPPOSE TO GET ALL THE BOXERS AND TRAINERS TOGETHER AND GIVE A SEND OF TO REMEMBER A PARTY OR SOMTHING AND TO THANK HIM FOR ALL HE HAS DONE FOR THE WILLASTON BOXING CLUB, BUT NO, MY DAD HAS BEEN SPOKEN TO IN THE CRUELEST WAY POSSIBLE, THE REASON BEING BECAUSE THE TRAINERS WANTED JUNIOR TRAINING SESSIONS MIXED WITH THE SENIOR SESSIONS BUT MY DAD DID NOT AGREE,THIS WAS LAST YEAR,AND MY DAD WON THE VOTE AND IT STAYED THE SAME, BUT THIS YEAR THEY WANTED THE SESSIONS BROUGHT TOGETHER ONCE AGAIN,BUT AGAIN MY DAD DISAGREED MY DAD ADVISED THAT IT HAD BIN TRIED BEFORE BUT DID NOT WORK BECAUSE OF THE LATE FINISH FOR THE SENIORS THIS WAS NOT PRACTICAL ESPECIALY IF THE SENIORS HAD TO WORK THE NEXT DAY, THE ONLY WAY THIS COULD BE DONE WAS IF THERE WAS A SECOND RING ONE OF THE TRAINERS EVEN PERSONALY WROTE TO MY DAD AND WHAT HE WROTE IN THE LETTER UP SET MY DAD TO THE CORE, THESE TRAINERS TRIED TO STOP OTHER BOXERS FROM OTHER CLUBS COMING TO MY DADS CLUB TO SPAR ,AS THEY SAID HE WAS TO OLD, BUT THANKFULLY THEY TURNED UP ANY WAY,ALSO WHEN MY DAD WENT FOR HIS ROUTINE TRAINING AND SPARRING, ON MONDAY EVENING, WED EVENING AND FRIDAY EVENING, AND ALSO SUNDAY MORNING THE CLUB WAS TOTALY EMPTY AS THE BOXERS WERE TOLD NOT TO TURN UP, AND ON ONE OCCASSION THE TRAINER TURNED AROUND AND SAID TO MY DAD WHEN YOU COME INTO THE CLUB, NEXT TIME STAND AT THE BACK OF THE ROOM DO NOTHING AND SAY NOTHING,AND ONCE WHEN OUT SIDE THE CLUB JUST AFTER THE LAST MEETING THE TRAINER TURNED AROUND AND SAID TO MY DAD AS HE TRAINS THE JUNIORS,I WOULD NOT SEND ANY OF MY BOYS UP TO YOU RAY,WHAT DISPICABLE BEHAVIOR IS THIS TO A LONG STANDING DECENT LOVING HUMAN BEING WHO AT THE END OF THE DAY PUT HIS HEART AND SOLE INTO THE WILLASTON, THIS AS HURT MY DAD DEEPLY,ESPECIALY WHAT HE HAS BEEN THROUGH THIS YEAR, WHEN HE HAD A ROBBERY AT HIS HOME AND I AND MY DAD WERE THREATENED WITH OUR LIFES, AND THEN ALL THIS ON TOP OF WHAT HE HAS BEEN THROUGH, 3 TRAINERS FROM THE WILLASTON ALL TRIED TO GET MY DAD TO LEAVE, BUT HE WOULDNT HAND HIS REIGNS IN WICH HE WAS TOLD TO DO, THIS FURIATED THE OTHER TRAINERS THATS WHEN MY DADS BOXERS STARTED DISSAPEARING,AND THE CLUB TOTALY EMPTYIED, THE TRAINER ALSO SAID THAT MEN HAVE BEEN COMING UP TO HIM AND SAYING THAT MY DAD IS TO OLD  HOW CAN WE GET RID OF HIM,AND YET ABOUT 3 TO 4 YEARS AGO MY DAD LEFT THE WILLASTON BOXING AND WENT TO THE BOXING CLUB IN MERSEY PARK, TRANMERE, WERE THERE HE HAD 26 FIGHTS AND WON 19,THEN LEFT THE PARK AND WAS ABOUT TO RETIRE,BUT THE WILLASTON WANTED MY DAD BACK, SO HE RETURNED TO HELP OUT,AND THINGS CONTINUED THERE OF,UNTILL RECENTLY,THEN THE TRAINERS HAD A FEW MEETINGS,THIS IS WHEN THERE BEHAVIOR CHANGED TOWARDS MY DAD,THE FIRST MEETING ABOUT 6 WEEKS AGO,WAS CANCLED DUE TO THERE BEING NO SECETARY,THIS IS WHEN 1 OF THE TRAINERS STARTED BAD MOUTHING MY DAD,MY DAD WAS SO SHOCKED AND UPSET BY THIS HE WALKED OUT OF THE MEETING, THEN ABOUT 3 WEEKS AFTER ANOTHER MEETING WAS CALLED,THEY DIDNT EVEN TELL MY DAD THERE WAS A MEETING THEY JUST SPRUNG IT ON HIM,MY DAD REFUSED TO HAVE THE MEETING BECAUSE HE HAD WROTE TO THE ABA WIH A COMPLAINT ABOUT THE SITUATION,BUT HE GOT NO REPLY WHAT SO EVER,THE JUNIOR TRAINERS CALLED FOR A GENERAL MEETING, THE TRAINERS THEM SELVES CALLED THE MEETING MY DAD WAS TOLD, BUT THE SECUTARY DIDNT EVEN KNOW ABOUT IT,WHEN MY DAD EXPLAINED TO HIM ABOUT THE MEETING HIS RESPONSE WAS OF SHOCK,IN THE MEAN TIME HE WAS APPROACHED BY ONE OF THE JUNIOR TRAINERS,YOU MAY AS WELL GIVE UP BECAUSE YOUR GONNA BE OUT VOTED, BECAUSE HE IS BRINGING THE FAT CLUB, MY DAD DIDNT EVEN NO WHO THESE PEOPLE WERE,AND AS FAR AS I NO THEY HAVNT EVEN BIN REGERSTERD IN THE CLUB SO WHO ARE THESE STRANGERS TO CUM INTO A MEETING AND TALK TO MY DAD THE WAY HE DID,IN THE MEETING MY DAD TRIED TO EXPLAIN AND PUT HIS POINT ACROSS, BUT THE FAT CLUB,ONE IN PATICCULAR WAS BAD MOUTHING MY DAD,WICH MY DAD GIVE HIM IT BACK, THE FAT CLUB MEMBER COMPLAINED ABOUT MY DADS LANGUAGE, I COULD SEE THAT I WAS GOING TO BE OUT VOTED SO I RESIGNED, (THE FAT CLUB ARE A GROUP OF KEEP FITTERS WHO TRAIN AFTER THE JUNIORS, I WOULDNT MIND BUT MY DAD DID  TRAIN LEGGER AND WILSON THEM SELVES FOR ALL THERE FIGHTS THESE ARE THE TWO WHO HAVE INSULTED MY DAD UP SIDE DOWN AND HURT HIM MY DAD DESERVES A MEDAL FOR WHAT HE HAS DONE FOR THESE BOXERS, AS I HAVE SAID AT THE BEGINNING MY DAD DEDICATED HIS HOLE LIFE TO BOXING.AND I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO MENTION OF A N X LONG STANDING FRIEND (JACO), A JUNIOR TRAINER THIS LAD A SO CALLED FRIEND IS THE ONE WHO TRIED TO WARN MY DAD OF THE MEETING.