From Mississauga.com:

Mississauga’s Zsolt Daranyi is going to the 2012 Youth National Boxing Championships in February, and he didn’t have to lose a drop of sweat or blood to qualify.

That’s because nobody wanted to fight the 152-pound 16-year-old last month at the Ontario Championships in Sarnia. As a result, Daranyi, who boasts a 41-3 amateur record, automatically qualified for the nationals.

“It just goes to show how much he’s feared in this province,” said Daranyi’s trainer, Chris Johnson, of Clancy’s Boxing Academy. “He was technically good a couple of years ago, but now he’s become a powerful kid. It’s not his skill that other boxers are afraid of now, it’s his power. They know they could get hurt.”

The national championships will be held in St. Hyacinthe, Quebec between Feb. 28 and March 3.

A gold at nationals will add to Daranyi’s impressive resume, which includes three provincial championships, a national title and a gold medal at the 2011 Canada Winter Games.

His ultimate goal is Olympic gold, which he could contend for in 2016. Until then, Johnson, a bronze medalist at the 1992 Olympic Games, would like to see his pupil go for gold at the Commonwealth and Pan American Games.

Johnson said Daranyi reminds him of himself when he was a teenager, but he’s more mature as a fighter.

“There was another 16-year-old kid who could (strike so much fear into his opponents) and that was me,” Johnson said, recalling his experience at the 1988 Ontario Winter Games, where he won gold uncontested.

“I see the same trend happening with Zsolt Daranyi and I went on to win an Olympic medal, so that shows that he has all the tools. I’ve just got to clamp down on him and keep him in the gym, away from all the distractions outside.”