The Guyana Boxing Association (GBA) on Friday announced that it has selected a final four-man team to represent Guyana at the Americas Boxing Confederation (AMBC) Elite Championships, to be held later this month in Ecuador.
Sport Minister Charles Ramson Jr posing alongside the boxers who would represent Guyana at the AMBC Championships
According to a missive from the GBA, the Guyana team would be led by former Caribbean Middleweight champion Desmond Amsterdam, and would include two former Caribbean champions in Light Welterweight Colin Lewis and Lightweight Jamal Eastman.
Accompanying the team would be GBA Technical Director Terrence Poole MS, who would serve as Manager/Coach.
Now that a final four have been selected, the team has been encamped and has been going through sessions conducted by Poole and National Coach Lennox Daniels.
Back in January, the GBA had announced an 18-man list that would go into training for selection to participate in this premier boxing event. Those pugilists included Keevin Allicock, sisters Abiola and Alesha Jackman, Mark Crawford, Richard Howard, Patrick Harvey, Travis Inverary, Jamal Eastman, Joel Williamson, Desmond Amsterdam, Colin Lewis, Julius Kesney, Quacy Abrams, Emanuel Pompey, Delroy Fordyce, Renaldo Niles, Aluko Bess and Richard Subraty.
Guyanese Olympian Keevin Allicock was weeks ago removed from the list of contenders to represent Guyana at the AMBC Championships, based on non-performance and non- attendance at training.
The AMBC Championships are slated for staging from March 22nd to April 2nd, 2022 in Guayaquil, Ecuador, and would mark the first international competition in which Guyana would be involved for the year 2022.
Based on a decision made by the International Boxing Association (AIBA) to reward successful boxers with monetary prizes, the AMBC Championships are expected to follow suit with prize monies for podium finishers. The medalists in each of 13 male and 12 female weight categories, according to the AMBC, would receive prize money: US$10,000 for first place, $5,000 for second, and $2,500 for third place.
