For the very first time, Britain's eight Olympics boxers are in the same room - and Inside Sport was there to meet them Inside Sport's Steve Bunce puts 21-year-old bantamweight Joe Murray in the hot seat Light-heavyweight Tony Jeffries, from Sunderland, owned a fast food van before he swapped burgers for Beijing Bradley Saunders (above) and his seven team-mates will represent over 10,000 competitive amateur boxers in England Super-heavyweight boxer "Dynamite" David Price, 24, won gold at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne Eighteen-year-old Billy Joe Saunders will be Britain's welterweight competitor in Beijing - his father, grandfather and great-grandfather were all boxers Senior ABA champion James DeGale, from Hammersmith, will fight in the middleweight category Birmingham 22-year-old "Funtime" Frankie Gavin is probably the best British boxing medal hope for Beijing - the lightweight was Britain's first ever world champion Skipping is a big part of the training regime - and the British boys throw in a bit of rivalry with a "skip-off" British head coach Terry Edwards says he expects the likes of Gavin (left) and Jeffries to push GB ahead of Cuba by London 2012
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