"Funtime"Frankie Gavin to fight in London(2012)

**yvonne** · 09-25-2008 08:40 AM

Hi folks,I've just read that Frankie Gavin will not turn pro,unless his boxing coach Terry Edwards quits as coach for the London Olympic 2012.Frankie said:"I want to fight in the London Olympics but if Terry Quits then i'll turn pro instead.
I dont know what to think of this

i cant see him fighting in the Olympics,i mean its 4years away what if he has weight promblems again?Im sure in time he'll eventually turn pro.I just feel that he has already lost his chance of the Olympics,and by time the London games begin their'll be new british hopefuls to rely on instead!If i were Frankie i would turn pro.What do you folks think?

**smashup** · 09-25-2008 09:08 AM

I've followed Gavin for a good few years and he stunned me at the Commonwealths a few years back when i just sat their thinking WOW and that i was watching a young Calzaghe..
Brilliantly gifted slick fighter who just makes it look easy.
I'd f*ck the Olympics off and turn pro but i can see why he may hang it out and be at 2012.
Any of our fighters win Gold in London and they are minted and the press will be all over them especially as the host nation and if he did win which he's well capable of then he'd be offered a ridiculously huge contract by Warren,who i think will snap up Degale by Xmas too

**saturday_kid** · 09-25-2008 09:36 AM

I'd heard Gavin had been in talks with all sorts of promoters including ODH/GBP so its a bit of a surprise. Fair play to him sticking by his coach though, but isn't there a huge doubt that Edwards will still be coach then anyway?

**smashup** · 09-25-2008 10:13 AM

Yeah and especially after Billy Joe Saunders dodgy sexual harrasment vid hit youtube..

I heard the powers that be directly hold Edwards responsible for not "looking after his fighters" so it doesn't look to clever for himreally.
How they can blame Edwards is beyond me?

**Scrap** · 09-25-2008 10:27 AM

Its the team managers fault, but He was probably Pissed at the time

**Tam Seddon** · 09-25-2008 12:28 PM

joke that, he needs to turn pro right now. Amatuers is a crock of shit IMO, hes proved hes best in the amatuers why doesnt he just get straight to the pro game?