BURY ABC's Ali Akbar Javid is ABA national schoolboy champion.

The 13-year-old boxer beat Repton ABC fighter Levi Dighton on points by a unanimous decision at the finals in Grantham on Saturday to claim the title in the 52k division.

Club-mate Zain Ahmed, also 13, just fell at the final hurdle, winning a silver medal in the 46k division after losing on points, also by a unanimous decision, against Repton's Barnie Doherty.

Bury ABC founder Mick Jelley and Colin Carr also won gold medals as winning coaches.

Jelley was proud of both his fighters.

"They were two superb fights," he said. "I thought young Zain had shaded it to be honest and he was obviously really upset but that's what you would expect.

"He had worked really hard to get to the final, but there were 74 fights, so there had to be 74 winners and 74 losers, that the game.

"Ali managed to get that winner's medal, but there is a fine line.

"He was tiring in the final round but he won all three rounds for me.

"Hopefully now he will be picked to box for England and in the Three Nations on the back of this and will make it into the squad for the European Schoolboy Championships."

Elsewhere, Bury ABC's Olympics-bound boxer Muhammad Ali lost his bout in the British Lionhearts' 9-1 defeat to Cuba in the final of the World Series of Boxing. The flyweight lost by a split decision to Yosbang Veitia.

And Scott Quigg has revealed a setback in his recovery from a broken jaw.

The former WBA super-bantamweight champ said he had suffered a reaction to metal plates used to fix his jaw in place following defeat to Carl Frampton, but expected to be back in the gym in a "month-and-a-half".