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MSP Boxers Go Toe-to-Toe with Fighters from Garda, Other Departments

The latest outing of the Massachusetts an instructor at the Garda’s Academy. The fight
State Police Boxing Team was held at a very brisk pace.
was recently at Marina Bay Even though both fighters were
Sportsplex in Quincy. This was extremely cautious in the first
a long-awaited contest against round, Amandon maintained
Ireland’s Garda Police. We control from the first round
had been trying to pull this off and into the second round
with our friends from across landing some heavy punches.
the pond for some time, but Not only did this novice fighter
could never quite get everyone’s show that he has the savvy, but
schedule to coincide, but we also the physical dominance
finally made it work. This show that he maintained throughout
was a culmination of efforts the fight. Ultimately he
and commitment from our gave Hennessey a standing 8
friends from Denver Police, count following an impressive
New York Fire Department, body shot in the 3rd round.
NYPD, Massachusetts Dept. of Corrections, Amandon advanced to the winner’s circle with a
Plymouth PD, Kingston PD, Milford PD and our 3rd round stoppage.
friend Sgt. Tom Toomey from Barnstable PD and
his club the Cape Cod Boxing Club. We had 13
fights scheduled but ended up with 12 entertaining
fights.

The Ireland Garda brought an entourage
of 13 people with 7 fighters. I was concerned
about their experience and our lack of it, so I was
careful not to have too many of our novice boxers
with head-to-head bouts but we did end up with
some competitive fights. The fact that this was
a sanctioned event with USA boxing didn’t help
with trying to match up some of our older fighters
because of age restrictions.

Trooper Brandon Amandon representing
Troop B was matched against Stephen Hennessey,

Trooper Brandon Amandon (L) and Ireland
Guarda’s Stephen Hennessey

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