sport othersports boxingandmma 4223848 ----- # Richie Woodhall will not be next GB boxing coach ## Former world super-middleweight champion Richie Woodhall has insisted that he will not succeed Terry Edwards as Great Britain's amateur head coach. By Gareth A Davies 6:01PM GMT 12 Jan 2009 [Comments][1] Woodhall, 40, said there is no way he would consider taking on the role. "It's an utter load of rubbish. Nobody has contacted me, certainly I am not in the frame and I rule myself out of it. I wouldn't take it if they offered it me, mainly because it's a full-time post and I've got a great career in television with Setanta and the BBC and I wouldn't stop that for anything. So I'm out of it. It emerged last weekend that 65-year-old Edwards, who led the GB team to their most successful Olympics in 56 years in Beijing last summer with a gold and two bronze medals, and was awarded the MBE in the New Years Honours list, will not have his contract renewed by the British Amateur Boxing Association. In spite of Edwards' success, his position going forward has become increasingly untenable and the appointment last month of 67-year-old Kevin Hickey as performance director was thought at first to be a sign that Edwards might continue. Edwards is refusing to comment on the development yesterday but it is understood he was told last week by Derek Mapp, head of the newly-created British Amateur Boxing Association, that he will not secure a contract extension in March. Woodhall was high performance manager for England in 2005, and it was thought he was in line for the new role. "I've got three or four different things I do in my life now in terms of earning money and to go into that full-time as head coach I would have to pack everything else in - and there's no way I'd do that. I've got a career in television and I'm doing well with my boxers in Birmingham. People are just putting two and two together and coming up with five." ## Related Articles * [DeGale 'can be' world champion][2] 12 Jan 2009 "But things have moved on, I'm very happy with what I'm doing. I don't know the ins and outs," he said. There are always problems politically in amateur and professional boxing. It tarnishes the sport. But I'm not interested, it doesn't bother me." Woodhall's charge, Commonwealth super-flyweight champion, Don Broadhurst, makes the first defence of his title in Birmingham on Feb 28. On the same card, Olympians James DeGale, the middleweight gold medallist, Frankie Gavin and Billy Joe Saunders will all make their professional debuts in 4-round fights. 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