CATH NEWS REPORT:
Screenshot from the Inner West Courier
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Next month at least 30 boxers, from champion Anthony Mundine to novice John Safran, will face pugilist Anglican priest Father Dave Smith in an attempt to break the world record for the most continuous rounds of boxing, on Palm Sunday, reports the Inner West Courier.
The parish priest at the Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Sydney's Dulwich Hill aims to box 120 rounds of three minutes over eight hours on Sunday, April 1.
Fr Dave, 50, is aiming to raise $10,000 for the church's youth drop-in centre which he has been running since 1994.
The centre brings together young people from the community and rehabilitates those with drug and alcohol issues through boxing.
Mundine and his father Tony and radio personality Safran and female boxer Lauryn Eagle are some of names entering the ring.
But Fr Smith is still looking for more people to face a round against the 'fighting priest' on Palm Sunday.
"When I started fighting, people would say 'I can't hit the father' and stuff like that," Fr Smith said.
"But I'd start hitting them and they'd quickly change their mind."
http://www.cathnews.com.au/article.aspx?aeid=30494
Screenshot from the Inner West Courier
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Next month at least 30 boxers, from champion Anthony Mundine to novice John Safran, will face pugilist Anglican priest Father Dave Smith in an attempt to break the world record for the most continuous rounds of boxing, on Palm Sunday, reports the Inner West Courier.
The parish priest at the Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Sydney's Dulwich Hill aims to box 120 rounds of three minutes over eight hours on Sunday, April 1.
Fr Dave, 50, is aiming to raise $10,000 for the church's youth drop-in centre which he has been running since 1994.
The centre brings together young people from the community and rehabilitates those with drug and alcohol issues through boxing.
Mundine and his father Tony and radio personality Safran and female boxer Lauryn Eagle are some of names entering the ring.
But Fr Smith is still looking for more people to face a round against the 'fighting priest' on Palm Sunday.
"When I started fighting, people would say 'I can't hit the father' and stuff like that," Fr Smith said.
"But I'd start hitting them and they'd quickly change their mind."
http://www.cathnews.com.au/article.aspx?aeid=30494
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