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West Australian
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- West Australian
WA Young Achiever Awards: Noongar Wongi rapper and youth mentor Joshua ‘Flewnt' Eggington named overall winner
When he's not under the bright lights on stage, he spends his time with young people in custody at Perth's Banksia Hill and Casuarina prisons. Proud Noongar Wongi man Joshua 'Flewnt' Eggington, 29, was the recipient of the prestigious 2025 Western Australia Young Achiever of the Year Award presented by Minister for Youth Hannah Beazley. Mr Eggington was selected from the nine category winners, who were announced at the 7NEWS Young Achiever Awards Gala Presentation Dinner. He founded FN Focus, a First Nations-led music label supporting Indigenous artist development and sustainable careers, in 2023 and is known worldwide for his songs Flip the Shame and Never Forget Since breaking into the Australian hip-hop scene in 2010, the father of five from Palmyra has used his music to pay homage to his family and culture. 'Hip-hop comes from the voiceless and the oppressed,' he told The West Australian in 2024 after being crowned the City of Melville's Auspire Young Citizen of the Year, for dedicating hours at Melville Library helping budding musicians write songs. 'Just by it's nature, hip-hop has this sort of attachment of being able to give people a chance to speak their truth. 'Music has always been one of the great forces behind political change, so I feel like I'm contributing to that through music. 'For me, it's always been about my community and the things I've observed as a young Aboriginal man, like all the rallies and protests I went to when I was a kid with my uncles, marching through the streets and protesting for our rights and Aboriginal equality and change and all these different issues that face my community.' Mr Eggington is a youth worker — mainly in the prison system in Banksia Hill and Casuarina — who teaches songwriting and music therapy. Many of the young people he works with are Indigenous and he previously told The West music is a way for the kids to connect with their culture. 'When you're working with young people who are disconnected from culture, they yearn for it,' he said. 'I am trying to give them a contemporary channel to be able to connect back to their culture and to their people and to be able to speak on their thoughts of what's going on.' In between youth work and music, Mr Eggington has found himself as something of a mentor to young artists across WA, and a vocal advocate for West Coast hip-hop. The award winner's eldest son, Ethan, is also a hip-hop artist, named Inkabee who recorded his first track at seven years old. Their family double act was busy last year touring regional WA as part of the Perth Festival and Mr Eggington appeared on America's Got Talent with his now 13-year-old son. All of the WA Young Achiever Award winners were announced on Friday at Pan Pacific Perth, in front of an audience of almost 400 people, hosted by 7NEWS presenter Jerrie Demasi. Mr Eggington also won the National Indigenous Times Indigenous Community Leadership Award. Each category winner received a free mentoring and strategy session with DMT Coaching, valued at $400, and will feature on a TV ad campaign that will be aired on the Seven Network across Western Australia.
BBC News
15-04-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
'The fight speaks for itself'
When Lee Cutler steps between the ropes to face Sam Eggington on Sunday, he expects 'Chaos' - as he is known by - to follow. "I think the fight speaks for itself, people know how we both fight." Cutler told BBC Sport. The light-middleweight from Dorset is targeting a 16th professional win this weekend when he takes on the experienced Eggington, who is from the West men are known for being in entertaining fights, with Eggington previously awarded a fight of the year award by the British Boxing Board of Control, and Cutler nominated for one last year for his victory over Stevie McKenna. That big win for the 29-year-old last time out saw him drop McKenna twice on the way to a majority decision win in Liverpool. The build-up to that bout was filled with fiery face-offs and insults thrown, but for Cutler, the mood going into this one feels quite different. 31-year-old Eggington has had 44 professional fights, winning 35 times with 20 knockouts and defeat on nine occasions. "It's a bit surreal because I've been watching him for a long time now," Cutler said. "It's a very tough fight, If Sam lands clean then he can hurt anyone so I have to stay switched on in that ring and that will only make me a better fighter on the night."He has taken a few losses but at a very good level. It's a yardstick for me to find out if I am at that level, I think that's the exciting thing for people watching." This fight takes place on the undercard of the second contest between light-heavyweights Ben Whittaker and Liam Cameron at BP Pulse Live in Birmingham on Easter Sunday. Cutler is trained by coach Josh Pritchard in London at the Shane McGuigan gym which is home to world champions Ellie Scotney and Caroline Dubois, as-well as super-lightweight Adam Azim and his close friend, and former world cruiserweight champion - Chris Billam-Smith. McGuigan, Azim and Billam-Smith all watched on from ringside and furiously cheered Cutler on as he defeated McKenna in DecemberBillam-Smith at one point even left his seat to shout instructions to his gym-mate in his corner between rounds, and later admitted that he was frustrated he did not show more. "I feel I can do so much more," Cutler said. "We know what I can do in the gym and Chris and my coach Josh know that I can sometimes get a little too comfortable in there. "I've done a lot of learning going into this next fight, I'm going to have to be on it." Bournemouth homecoming still 'the dream' Going into his previous fight, Cutler said that he had been promised a headline show by promoter Ben Shalom in his hometown of Bournemouth. He has previously featured on the undercard of Billam-Smith and fought at the Bournemouth International Centre, as well as AFC Bournemouth's Vitality Stadium. But having previously been behind the pecking of his gym mate in these hometown shows, Cutler now wants to experience some of the centre stage for himself. "This is a fight that boosts my profile even more that can set up a homecoming if I come through." He said. "But this is a great opportunity that I couldn't turn down. It's in Sam's back yard and it's on a big main event."It was too big of an opportunity to turn down, I could have been waiting around for a while to head back to Bournemouth."But I believe after this fight I will get the job done in good fashion and we can go back down to Bournemouth, that has always been my goal, to headline a big fight in my hometown is the dream."
Yahoo
13-02-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Cutler set to defend title against Eggington in Birmingham at Easter
LEE Cutler is set to defend his WBC International Silver Super Welterweight title against Sam Eggington in April. Cutler beat Stephen McKenna to take the title back in December, beating the previously unbeaten Irishman on a deserved majority decision in Liverpool. Now, the Verwood-raised boxer will face Eggington on the undercard of Boxxer's Ben Whittaker vs Liam Cameron fight, in Birmingham on Easter Sunday, April 20. Cutler holds a 15-1 record to his opponent's 35-9. Phase 1 👇#WhittakerCameron2 | Apr 20 | @bppulseLIVE | @SkySportsBoxing — BOXXER (@boxxer) February 13, 2025 The Poole boxer will be up against Eggington in front of a home crowd, with his opponent previously holding the IBO Super-welterweight title, as well as the British, Commonwealth and European welterweight titles. In his last five fights, Eggington has been beaten twice – by Dennis Hogan and Abass Baraou, but he beat Alan Sebastian Velazquez on points last time out in November. The Birmingham fighter featured on the card as Chris Billam-Smith beat Lawrence Okolie to take the WBO World Cruiserweight title back in May 2023 at the Vitality Stadium in Bournemouth. Cutler also featured on that card, beating Stanley Stannard on points, as Eggington beat Joe Pigford by TKO.
