FISTS of glory were hoisted aloft as a battery of York Amateur Boxing Club talents excelled in a brace of shows.

No fewer than five of the club’s growing band of ring warriors sampled victory led by Thomas McDonald.

The teenager racked up two wins within a week. A victory over Leeds boxer Ryan Quarmby was followed by the York ace bagging the verdict over Grimsby’s Levi Collins in a bill at the Doncaster Drome.

And club trainer Billy Wilson said the hectic schedule for the have-gloves-will-fight youngster features another three contests before the end of the year as the club builds towards entering a bumper field in the national schoolboys’ championships.

Said Wilson: “They are all working so hard and they are all showing quite a lot of promise.

“We are gearing a lot of the lads up for the schoolboys’ in the new year.”

Another York winner was Charlie Hall, who accounted for Jake Farrow of St Paul’s ABC from Hull, while 15-year-old Dean Moss followed a debut reverse with three successive wins, the latest being against Sam Chumrezynski who inflicted that lone defeat on the York prospect.

Henry Andrews, aged 13, was bang on for victory when he disposed of Sheffield boxer Hamed Zafah, while Felix James, also aged 13, got the best of Jack Neesham, an opponent from the Highfield club in Consett.