Brendan Ingle gym: 13 photos looking back at Sheffield boxing gym where 'Prince' Naseem and Kell Brook trained

By Jane Salt

Published 11th Nov 2022, 04:45 GMT

From the outside it is an unremarkable building in a corner of Sheffield often overshadowed by Meadowhall.

But Brendan Ingle’s gym in Wincobank has always punched well above its weight on the international boxing stage, with the great man training a slew of British and world champions including the likes of ‘Prince’ Naseem Hamed and Kell Brook. The gym is still going strong despite the man who made it such a globally renowned cradle of the sport having sadly died in 2018.

Here are 13 photos of the famous gym and the people who have made it tick over the years.

. David Blunkett meets some of the kids

Then Home Secretary David Blunkett meets some of the kids at Brendan Ingles gym in Wincobank in December 2002 Photo: Dean Atkins staff

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. Young boxers 1980

Brendan Ingle, boxing promoter, pictured with young boxers in 1980 Photo: Bob Westerdale

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. Esham Pickering

Pete Skinner, second from right, called into Brendon Ingle's Newman Road gym to sponsor one of up his and coming boxers, Esham Pickering, second left. Left to right are, Brendan, Esham Pickering, ex world champ Tim Witherspoon, Pete Skinner and John Daly, September 2003 Photo: Andrew Partridge staff

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. Johnny Nelson

Johnny Nelson and young boxing champions at Brendan Ingle's gym January 1994 Photo: Sheffield Newspapers

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. Junior Witter

Pictured is the latest World Boxing Champion to come out of Brendan Ingle's Newman Road Gym, Junior Witter won the WBF Light Welterweight Title beating Malcolm Melvin in Newcastle in February 1999 Photo: Steve Ellis