Qualifies for the olympics and wins world championship this morning!

Congratulations to the lass, an outstanding achievement. On the way to the final she had to beat 2 or 3 of the best in the world, including some American "wonderkid" and the world number 2. Looking forwards to seeing her at the Olympics.

Good lass, well done, she'll hopefully be a star at the games.

..wonder if there are any tv highlights?

Hopefully when she gets home she'll know she's hit the big time when she finds out she's made it on to The Bunker

It was live on aibaboxingtv.com think they put all the highlights on as well.
Apparently its her 21st birthday today as well.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/boxing/18129531

Interview with her. Poor lass is overwelhmed

NB Britain's first world champion!

...Yep go to 2hrs 41mins in the coverage and the whole fights on.

Medal ceremony 3hrs 23mins in.

Well done Sav,

Women boxing

Yeah, who'd have thought! Next thing you know they'll be wanting the right to vote.......

Don't understand why you want to piss on her parade Tree.

Well done Savannah, hadn't realised it was online, would of watched it!

Why should women want to knock foook out of each other in a small square ring.
I just don’t think women are supposed to fight. A woman with a broken nose or a black eye is just not a good look.
Tessa Jowell has made some stupid decisions in her time but allowing women to box is just crazy!

Why should men?

It's a sport and she's representing Britain in an olympics held In England. I'd say every member of this board would love to compete for an olympic gold. Black eyes don't look good on anyone. I thought the chovanistic days were gone.

I bet he wouldn't say it to her face!!!

Well done savannah and good luck for the gold

If you see a woman with a black eye the first thing people think is domestic violence, you see a bloke and you think he's had a scrap down the town, he's been knocked about on a rugby pitch or he's done it sparring down the local gym, all the latter are accepted by the general population and not frowned upon at all.
Man or most men are born with the fighting instinct to challenge another man, it's the way most of us are made.
There's also the relatively minor aspect of entertainment and skill, like womens footy it's never going to appeal to the masses and therefore is an absolute waste of time and money promoting such a thing.

So you say the general population think it's acceptable to go scrapping down the town and it's not frowned upon. But you also think it's unacceptable for women skilled in their chosen sport to compete against each other in a fully controlled environment.

our lass cant wrestle but you should see her box

You obviously didn't go to Shades or Caspers in the 90s

Two of the best/worst (depending on your point of view) fights I saw down the town were back in the mid 80's. Both were gang fights involving women in the Devon and Foxy's. Absolute pure violence with no mercy! Frightening.

I mean Hartlepool World Champions are common as muck these days aren't they, so hey let's refocus this topic on the evils of women's boxing.

But before that, anyone mind if I just say GET THE FOOK IN SAVANNAH

It must be a Hartlepool gene thing that we must find something to whine about even in the most positive of circumstances.

Jesus did indeed weep.

Too true Mr Kipper.

Can I just say, I haven't but it's just a matter of time and geography.....

This is very true. I hope she does well in the olympics too.

Well done Savannah!!

How anyone can find a negative aspect to a young lady succeeding at what she wants to do is beyond me.

Mr Tree must just be fishing surely?

If you can get enjoyment out of 2 women knocking each others brains about and all in the interests of brownie points for the town then good for you.
Not my cup of tea like!

Nobody is insisting you have to watch every fight she takes part in. Would it be difficult to congratulate her on winning a WORLD title?

Its as stupid as 22 blokes kicking fuck out of a bag of wind for 90 minutes. All sport is bloody pointless but when someone chooses to follow a professsion and reaches the top of it they deserve recognition.

Actually post olympics, Savannah Marshall v The Lightning Tree - 6 x 3 minute rounds £10 a ticket with a free bag of mixed nuts and a can of pop.

Can someone ask her if she is interested?

Where can you reserve a ticket?

Don't fight with women, come off second best with the missus too many times

has anyone mentioned that they'd bum her yet ?

no...?

Only Mr Spender.

Oy Oy oy, I never said the pencil sharpener!!

I'd be cut off in me prime.....

she might enjoy getting battered about the ring.

I would assume that Savannah does this for the good of herself, as she wants to be a top class sportswoman. The fact the town also gets some small publicity from this is great, but it will be Savannah who wins the medal, not the town!

nope, its the town's medal. her involvement is largely irrelevant.

This is true, I'm on an open top bus tour tomorrow to show off my winners medal, civic reception at the lotus garden to follow.

Great news to hear Hartlepool will have some representation in the Olympics.

Good luck to Savannah and I will keep track of her progress during the Olympics.

Howay POK, she is the 2nd representative from the town confirmed after the swimmer Jemma Lowe was selected a few weeks ago

Thought she would qualify. All the better for Hartlepool then.

The lass done good.

Confirmation if ever needed that lightning tree is a moron.

Well done miss Marshall!!!

Fantastic to see a young working class lass from the Headland featuring for Team GB at the Olympics.
Put's paid IMHO to all those that whine about the 2012 games.

Well done Savannah!!

Our Athletics Club in Sedgefield has just had it's 70th kid compete at Track & Field events this season & achieved it's 64th top 3 placing. As one of the coaches at the club I know the Olympics is having a major effect on participation & effort.
We've got kids coming in from as far afield as Pools, Darlo, Billingham as well as the Sth Durham Villages.

Knock it all you like but for young adults like Savannah & for all those kids getting involved in Sport whether it's athletics, boxing or whatever the 2012 games is inspirational.

How about some of the Bunkerites helping Chip out with his work with the youngsters & setting up a junior athletics club in Pools. I'm sure the good folk of Burn Rd Harriers will help you out.
It would also be a really postive contribution to the town.

Working with kids, getting fitter etc by doing so also seems to be attractive to women!

Boxing/athletics etc all need coaches to help kids like Savannah be the best they can.

So how about it Bunkerites?

If that is what you think most people think then perhaps that is because there is so much of it about - in which case that is more to the shame and detriment of MEN than to women.

Well done Savannah
Well done the Headland Boxing Club
Well done the lass from Leeds for her silver medal
Well done to all three British lasses for qualifying for the Olympics.

Not in my case, my missus has legs like Hulk Hogan!! She's the boss here!
I just don't see the attraction of two girls knocking each others brains about for half an hour.
If the bairn came in from school and asked to go boxing I'd tell her to give her head a shake and come back with something a lot less harmful.
Fair play to the lass for wanting to succeed in something but in my eyes it's still wrong.

Our rass cracked me once when we were arsing about, I'm 79kg and she's 49kg, I'm 186cm and she's 145 or so, and I went down like a sack of shite. Her fist is about 4" square but she caught me a beauty.

Why not I say??

I can sort of see where Lightning Tree is coming from like.

I went to watch kickboxing last year and before the mens events there was a few womens fights. It was just a bit uncomfortable watching it. You couldnt get the same level of enjoyment from seeing a woman kicking anothers head in.