Jye's taking on the world

Jye Dixon, from All Star Boxing Academy in Lawnton, will start his world title quest this weekend on the other side of the world.

Caboolture-born Dixon, 20, will step into the ring tomorrow for his opening fight at the World Amateur Championships (September 4-14) in Liverpool.

The Brendale-based boxer faces Tolga Kaya, from Turkey, in the Men’s 55kg division on Sunday morning at the M&S Bank Arena.

Trained by Paul Utia and Ben Harrington at All Star Academy, Dixon has 47 victories and 13 defeats from 60 amateur fights, considerably more than Kaya, according to online fight records.

But the world championships is an open-age tournament and two months ago Dixon told Moreton Daily: “The standard of competition will be the highest I’ve faced.”

“Elite is open age, everyone is there. Could be Olympians. (But) Liverpool is going to be exciting and a big one for me.

“I’m looking forward to it. I want all the experience I can get. When it’s time to go, I’ll be ready.”

His preparation included a trip to Astana, in Kazakhstan, for the World Boxing Cup, where Dixon lost to Michael Trindale, 24, on contrasting scores by five judges.

One gave Dixon all three rounds and another the Brazilian each round. A third judge gave Dixon the fight two rounds to one, but the final two said Trindale by the same margin.

Dixon rallied to win the International Golden Gloves title in Brisbane recently when the referee stopped his fight against Marvin Canon, from Nauru, in round three.

He has since had camps at the AIS and the Australian team trained in Scotland before moving down to Liverpool for the World Championships.

Dixon has spent his entire boxing career at the All Star Academy - first fighting at 30kgs – and is now training 12-16 hours over five-six days each week.

He already has seven Queensland and seven Australian titles, was fifth at the 2022 IBF World Youth Championships and is just the third All Star fighter (after Liam Pope and Liam Wilson) to win an Elite Australian title.

Turning professional is his “end goal” but Dixon aims to “try to do as much as I can in the amateurs, get everything I can and move up to the pros when I’m ready.”