The Haszten sports association for people with disabilities, in the Leioa Boxing Trophy

Next Saturday, December 17, it will be held at Biscay town of Leioa, The first Leioa Open Boxing Trophy.

The event, organized by the town hall of that town in collaboration with local boxing club ‘Bibox’will start at 7:00 pm at Sakoneta Sports Centerin the middle of town, and will be free help.

Here, athletes from up to 10 boxing clubs will participate and, among them, Hastenthe adapted and inclusive sports association that tries to make life easier for people with disabilities and functional diversity through sports practice in the territory ofand Biscay.

Diego, Ignacio, Andrei and Gerard They will, at the start of the event, do some boxing training like those carried out in one of the many association sports.

The goal is to make visible the abilities we all have in performing any sporting activity.

Adapted boxing is not official at the national level, professionals living in Spain have to go to other countries to compete, but little by little steps are being taken to formalize the basics of what the rules will be.

Before the pandemic, the pFirst National Adapted Boxing Congress. The Spanish Boxing Federation Presented several days of events and talks in CInfanta Cristina Sports Technical Center, can be found at Los Alcázares (Murcia).

The town of Biscay has not hosted a boxing evening for decades but finally, the bibox fighters, will be able to compete at home, on what is surely one of the last nights of the year in Basque Country.

The order of battles

1- Natalia Bustos 55kg (BIBOXLEIOA) vs Aya Majoi Reja 55kg (CB Ring)

2- Iraia Blanco 56 ́5kg (Gurutze Box) vs Lucia Espinola 56 ́5kg (CB Ring)

3- Oibar Artetxe 56kg (MT Boxing) vs Paula Udaeta 56kg (Basakick)

4- Aner Viejo 64kg (BIBOXLEIOA) vs Eneko Peralta 64kg (Indor Gym)

5- Yerai Gonzalez 60kg (BIBOXLEIOA) vs Joaquin Chirosa 60kg (CB Ring)

6- Johan Gonzalez 59kg (MT Boxing) vs Jeremias Fretes (Rivero Team)

7- Unai Ibañez 78kg (BIBOXLEIOA) vs Asier Gonzalez 78kg (MGZ)

8- Julen Martinez 86kg (BIBOXLEIOA) vs Jose Raúl Ortega 86kg (CB Ring)