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Katie Woolf spoke with Boxing NT Vice President Michael Rochford · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: Who know that this Friday night, as I understand it,
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  Speaker 1: there's going to be a boxing competition. There is actually
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  Speaker 1: amateur fights with boxes coming from Alice Springs, Kannanara and Darwin.
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  Speaker 1: And joining me on the line will to tell us
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  Speaker 1: a little bit more about it. But also, as I understand,
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  Speaker 1: they're actually on the lookout for a doctor to be
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  Speaker 1: on site at the tournament. So joining us on the
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  Speaker 1: line is boxing into Vice president Michael Rochford.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning to you, Michael.
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  Speaker 3: Morning Katy. How are you? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Really well? Now I understand though your nickname is Ditcher?
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  Speaker 2: Is that right?
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  Speaker 3: Correct? You don't have enough came on the radio for
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  Speaker 3: me to tell you where it came from.
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  Speaker 2: No, I won't ask.
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  Speaker 1: Now obviously Friday night, isn't it so that the tournament
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  Speaker 1: is on, tell us a bit more about what's happening
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  Speaker 1: it is.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we've got one of our former Australian Olympians commented
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  Speaker 3: down on Friday and he's the National Futures Court and
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  Speaker 3: the National Pathway Coach for Boxing Australia and he's up
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  Speaker 3: to on a two day camp as well as the
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  Speaker 3: fight mate. And this is probably one of the largest
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  Speaker 3: fight mates we've put together. We've had eighty nominations. We've
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  Speaker 3: been able to manage to match about forty fifty boxes. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: and unfortunately last minute our normal doctors are pulled out
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  Speaker 3: just being busy gone bush and we've tried to hit
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  Speaker 3: every resource. So and now we're just trying to have
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  Speaker 3: a see if there is a doctor available, all we
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  Speaker 3: have to cancel the whole lot.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well, because you do obviously have to make sure that
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  Speaker 1: you've got a doctor on site at any sort of
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  Speaker 1: fight night, any boxing tournament, don't you that's correct.
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  Speaker 3: We're not allowed proceed with a fully qualified doctor president.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and so at this point in time it is
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  Speaker 1: a bit of a call out.
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  Speaker 2: You need a doctor.
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  Speaker 1: You need to make sure that you've got one there
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  Speaker 1: on Friday night so that this tournament can happen. But
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  Speaker 1: it also sounds like it's a pretty important one for
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  Speaker 1: a lot of our juniors in terms of working their
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  Speaker 1: way through and getting a bit of fight experience.
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  Speaker 3: It is well on this tournament, Katie. I don't know
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  Speaker 3: if you know. In the last year and a half
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  Speaker 3: boxing in the Northern Territory have a couple of our
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  Speaker 3: juniors have won the Australian National title, silver medals, seven
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  Speaker 3: medals at the Australasian Golden Gloves last year, yeah, before
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  Speaker 3: we got shut down. And this year in February we
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  Speaker 3: sent seven athletes to South Australia for the first ever
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  Speaker 3: Australian Club Championships, another big national tournament, and we came
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  Speaker 3: back with two national champions. From that. We've got all
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  Speaker 3: bar one on this card who normally can't get fights
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  Speaker 3: in the Northern Churchy, We've managed to get them matches.
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  Speaker 2: Oh good on you guys. Look.
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  Speaker 1: I grew up in a family where both my brothers boxed.
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  Speaker 1: Both of them took part in the Golden Gloves in
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  Speaker 1: Queensland at different times, and I you know, I know
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  Speaker 1: that there's lots of rules and regulations in place when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to these tournaments and making sure that you
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  Speaker 1: keep those juniors safe and having a doctor there is
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  Speaker 1: something that's a really important part of that, just on
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  Speaker 1: the doctor side of things. Look, what exactly are you
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  Speaker 1: after so that if there is maybe one listening this
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  Speaker 1: morning who's potentially able to help that they can they
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  Speaker 1: can get in contact and and we can maybe sort
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  Speaker 1: of sort that out for you.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Look, they just have to be present. I suppose
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  Speaker 3: for four or five hours on the evening. So the
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  Speaker 3: first the first hour is basically just doing a very
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  Speaker 3: very quick medical temperature check for COVID reasons obviously, and
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  Speaker 3: then heart rate pulls all that sort of stuff just
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  Speaker 3: before they get into the ring and they're literally sitting
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  Speaker 3: ring side yep for the fight night. They have the
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  Speaker 3: complete power to stop any fight if they you know,
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  Speaker 3: after any series cuts, head injuries, anything like that. Our knockdowns, yep.
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  Speaker 3: We'll provide them with the full AVA rule lists for doctors.
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  Speaker 3: And and also they're going to get paid on the
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  Speaker 3: night as well. I mean we normally, we normally try
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  Speaker 3: to pay the doctors up two thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 1: On the night. Yeah, so if if there is a
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  Speaker 1: doctor listening today, we can obviously pass on those details.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, boxing into if they find you on
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  Speaker 1: Facebook or anywhere, really they'd be able to alsoly eyes
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  Speaker 1: with you on there, wouldn't.
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  Speaker 3: I that's correct, idiot.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, did you just tell us a little bit more
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  Speaker 1: about about some of the bouts that you've got lined up?
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  Speaker 2: How many? How many are you looking at?
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  Speaker 1: And I know that there are people coming from Ellie Springs,
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  Speaker 1: Kleinara and Darwin.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's correct. We've got about twenty confirmed matches so far.
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  Speaker 1: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: The main event is going to be between the current
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  Speaker 3: elite silver medalists from nationals and he went and turned
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  Speaker 3: that over in January when he went down and won
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  Speaker 3: the open Elite National belt. So he's he's going to
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  Speaker 3: be on the main card. He's fighting a young fellow
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  Speaker 3: that's come to Cyclone from Victoria.
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  Speaker 1: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: He's fifteen fighteen. His only loss was to Caleb Gray,
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  Speaker 3: who is one of Australia's representatives, who was eighty and
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  Speaker 3: oh yep. And then we've got a few few of
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  Speaker 3: the other up and coming juniors, some of them are
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  Speaker 3: half of me undefeated yet in the Adi Kuilo Mark
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  Speaker 3: we've got a few night the Quilo outs on, so
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  Speaker 3: a couple of big bangers for the you know, to
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  Speaker 3: please the crowd. And then we've got a couple of
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  Speaker 3: our young novices stepping out trying to showcase their skills
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  Speaker 3: in front of Jamie Fittmanuoli's here.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, all good stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Anybody making their debut for their first for their first belt.
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  Speaker 3: U there is a there is a few. So we've
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  Speaker 3: got a couple of new boxing clubs opened up in
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  Speaker 3: Down and Alice Springs this year and all of them
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  Speaker 3: are participating in this one. We've got a few beginners
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  Speaker 3: from the likes of Crop Pick Boxing, a couple coming
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  Speaker 3: up from K and K Boxing and Alice Springs.
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  Speaker 2: All good stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Make Where can people go to if they are after
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  Speaker 1: a bit more info about heading along to the tournament?
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  Speaker 2: Where can they find out some more information?
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  Speaker 3: Once once we know we've got a doctor. Once we've
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  Speaker 3: got a doctor, we can confirm time and the venue
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  Speaker 3: is going to be Portuguese Team Maurice Club. Yeah, and
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  Speaker 3: then were laim for force fight around seven o'clock. Once
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  Speaker 3: the doctor's happy, everyone's clear, Yeah, yeah, we'll we'll just
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  Speaker 3: push through the fights. Yeah yeah, all those boxers back
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  Speaker 3: it up the next the next two days. Then with
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  Speaker 3: Jamie Pittman.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I reckon, that's fantastic.
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  Speaker 1: It's always great to have somebody here and and Jamie
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  Speaker 1: Pittman here obviously the Australian Futures coach and no doubt
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  Speaker 1: spending a bit of time with some of those juniors
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  Speaker 1: and and the other fighter is sort of hoping to
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  Speaker 1: to get a bit of development and develop their skill.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure that's right.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, as I said, Jamie Pittman represented Australia, was
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  Speaker 3: a pro boxer, so it'll be boxers and coaches that
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  Speaker 3: will benefit from him being here.
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  Speaker 2: Hi did just speaking of representing Australia.
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  Speaker 1: You how how are boxes the Aussie boxes going at
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  Speaker 1: the at the Olympics.
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  Speaker 2: Have they started yet?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? They started last night Harry our side went in
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  Speaker 3: and had a very comfortable win. Actually, one of the
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  Speaker 3: boxers that are on the fight card on Friday Night
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  Speaker 3: from Darwin fought Garside a couple of years ago before
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  Speaker 3: he pulled out.
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  Speaker 2: Oh there you go. Good stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I think I think all the boxes at the
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  Speaker 3: Olympics are definitely definitely metal shots. Yeah, a couple of them,
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  Speaker 3: A couple of them will be hard, the female female
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  Speaker 3: ones will be will be difficult and close. A couple
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  Speaker 3: of good boxes and there for Sky Nicholson.
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  Speaker 2: Yep, all good stuff. Well. I love the Olympics.
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  Speaker 1: I love watching all the sports, you know, I love
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  Speaker 1: watching sport in general. But I reckon, I reckon, it's
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  Speaker 1: going to be great to see some of ours, our boxes,
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  Speaker 1: our swimmers, all of them, whatever sport it is to
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  Speaker 1: see them do well and ditch I really hope that
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  Speaker 1: you guys are able to get that doctor for the
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  Speaker 1: weekend so that you're able to continue on with the
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  Speaker 1: fight night and have Jamie Pittman here and uh and
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  Speaker 1: and yeah, really make a night of it, and and yeah,
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  Speaker 1: hopefully we're able to make that happen. We will put
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  Speaker 1: the call out again on air this morning. If anybody
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  Speaker 1: out there is listening, if you are a doctor who's potentially.
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  Speaker 2: Able to help, give us a call, or you can.
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  Speaker 1: Get in contact with Boxing Into via their Facebook page. Ditcher,
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  Speaker 1: We really appreciate your time this morning having a chat
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  Speaker 1: with us and letting us know what's going on.
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  Speaker 3: No, I really appreciate you having us some helping us Katie.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, no problem.
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  Speaker 1: Hopefully you're able to locate a doctor, please let us know.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, we'll let our listeners know as well how
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  Speaker 1: you've gone and whether the fight night's able to continue
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  Speaker 1: on Friday.
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  Speaker 2: No problem, much against, no problem at all, Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: And that was Boxing Into vice president there, Michael Rochford,
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  Speaker 1: but well known as Ditcher. And yeah, I think it's
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  Speaker 1: a good thing to obviously make sure that they are
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  Speaker 1: able to get this doctor. It's essential, in fact, that
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  Speaker 1: they are able to get a doctor there on site,
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  Speaker 1: and it will mean that there's able to be around
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  Speaker 1: twenty of those amateur five with boxes coming from Alice Springs,
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  Speaker 1: Kannanara and Darwin. I know that, you know, for some
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  Speaker 1: of those juniors, it's going to be fundamental for them
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  Speaker 1: in terms of getting that experience in the ring. And yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and by the sounds of it, it's going to be
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  Speaker 1: a great night, plenty of different athletes displaying their skills
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  Speaker 1: there in the boxing ring.