AN Irish boxing charity is hosting 10 Boston-based amateur boxers in West Belfast this weekend to compete with and build relationships with fellow boxers from the city. Bridges Beyond Boxing is a charity organisation which brings young boxers from deprived areas in Belfast and across Ireland over to the United States for boxing bouts every year. This week they will reciprocate the event and bring over their Boston counterparts to compete across the North in two separate nights of amateur fights. The charity is run by Brendan Lowe Sr and Joe Lowe of St Paul’s Boxing Club in Belfast, as well as Spike Martin of Scorpion Boxing in Ballymoney, and Stephen Power on the Boston side. The scheme has been in existence since 2016 when Brendan Lowe Sr pitched the idea of bringing young Belfast boxers – who live in deprived areas – across the Atlantic to live and compete with US-based boxers who live in similar conditions to themselves.