Westside Boxers stormed to success at a recent boxing tournament, gaining national recognition for the Hounslow boxing club.

Heavyweight Aaron Oyebolla and light middleweight Marley Rutherford, from Hounslow's Westside Boxing gym, both won gold at the Mtk Lonsdale box cup.

The sold-out event at Penrith leisure centre in the Lake District saw the local boxers go up against competitors from the UK and Europe.

Both boxers performed well in the previous quarter and semi-finals to reach the finals, but they saved the best till last.

Aaron scored a first round knock-out, and Marley's superior boxing won him a comfortable points victory in the final bouts of this year's tournament.

Another Westside boxer in the youth category, Ben O'rielly-Guyett, welterweight, was terribly unlucky in the final not to get the decision from the judges.

John Holland is the main trainer who founded the two local boxing gyms, The Westside Hounslow and Ivybridge Iselworth.

After the match, John commended all his boxers, including brothers Tom and Paddy Cash, Bobby Maddox, Euan McCury, Mustafa Zadeh, Jake Wheeler and Kody Mellars.

Jonh said: "They all performed brilliantly and did the club proud.

He added: "We are having a huge impact in the local area and are well known in the London boxing circles, but we are currently getting a lot of recognition in the UK for our successes."

John, along with his coach Allan Bamford, runs the Ivybridge boxing gym at Isleworth after being approached by cllr Sue Sampson who had seen the great work he had done with the kids in Hounslow.

Johns dad, Harry Holland, was inducted in the hall of fame for boxing in 2019, and has now cornered an amateur champion in every decade since the 1960s, after taking charge of Rutherford's corner in the final.

With such a rich past and present, the future looks great for the Westside and Ivybridge boxing gyms.