The local boxers will have their chance to represent their home turf and build off of the hype of last season as they converge at the National Gymnasium, Mandela Avenue, when it hosts the Guyana Boxing Association’s (GBA), Sean Bristol’s and Alford McDonald’s International “Nuff Cuff” this Sunday.
The Guyanese contingent will look to ride the high of their success in the 2016
Steve Ninvalle
season where they impressed with a record-breaking domination of the regional circuit, most notably their marvellous feat of gold medals at the Caribbean Developmental Boxing Tournament in Bridgetown, Barbados.
Guyana will host the likes of regional talents when they enter the squared circle from Suriname, St Maarten and Trinidad and Tobago in a night expected to kick of the season with high intensity.
This competition is the first to be held by the GBA for the year and according to GBA President, Steve Ninvalle, this competition is set to help our local boxers gain international competition experience as it will be useful later in the year, while he reiterated the fact that this particular competition is of utmost importance in channelling the boxers along the necessary path.
Ninvalle indicated that St Maarten has already indicated intentions of sending at least one boxer, while Suriname has confirmed five boxers so far and Guyana expecting to have 15 boxers on show.
Following the conclusion of last season’s boxing, many stakeholders, including Minister with responsibility for Sport, Nicolette Henry, Director of Sport Christopher Jones and President of the Guyana Olympic Association, KA Juman Yassin have all pledged their full support to the sport as they eye the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo in an effort to secure a medal, bearing in mind that Guyana has only secured a medal at the Olympics in boxing.
Admission to the fights will be $1000 for the VIP section and $500 for general admission. The organisers will place a high premium on punctuality and the first bell will be sounded at 20:00h sharp.
