RAIN `battered’ the Guyana Boxing Association (GBA) `Nuff Cuff’ Tournament in the Buxton community, East Coast Demerara, on Saturday evening, forcing the organisers to shift the proceedings to the Andrew `Six Head’ Lewis Gym yesterday, but this too was aborted, since the visiting St Lucian team objected to the standard of the ring at the facility. The card, which was scheduled for a 19:00hrs start, got under way later, and just six of the 15 fights were completed before the rains came again, forcing the organisers to abandon the proceedings and change the venue to the `Six Head’ Lewis Gym for yesterday. But after one international fight was staged between Guyana’s Theresha London who beat St Lucia’s Menlana Sinclay by a 3-0 majority in a middleweight bout and Guyana’s Eon Bancroft outlasted St Lucia’s Ron Bastien in a welterweight exhibition contest, the visitors’ management team complained about the ring ropes being slack and the canvas not of international standard. This complaint forced the organisers to call off the card. However, GBA president Steve Ninvalle told Chronicle Sport the GBA will stage another `Nuff Cuff’ Night June 24 with the association’s intermediate championships. This tournament will be staged at California Square where the association held its first `Nuff Cuff’ event for the year and which was highly successful in terms of spectator-support. “That tournament saw the largest turnout of supporters at amateur boxing in over two decades and I’m very enthused by that response, so we’re going back there for the intermediate tournament,” Ninvalle assured. GBA Technical Director Terrence Poole said he is expecting over 60 entries for this month-end’s tournament, noting that when the first `Nuff Cuff’ tournament was staged at the California Circle venue, there were 60 entries and the boxing enthusiasts from the East and West Ruimveldt communities were given a real treat, “so we have to take boxing to the people, not waiting for them to come to us,” Poole stated. In results from Saturday night’s bouts, Harpy Eagles (HE) Travis Hubbard scored the only technical knock-out victory of the night and this was against his gym mate Orin Bancroft in the second round of their 120-125 pounds bout, while Isaiah Moore (HE) defeated Essequibo’s (Esse) Delroy Elcock by a 3-0 majority. In the 100-105 weight group, Shaquille Wright beat his gym mate Deshon Elcock by a 3-0 majority in a 100-104 pounds contest; Christopher Moore (Esse) defeated HE’s Elijah Insanally by a 3-0 decision in their 110-114 pounds bout and Jabhari Migg (HE) beat his gym mate Shane Skeet by a 3-0 majority in their 120-125 pounds contest. Ninvalle has expressed his association’s gratitude to Ansa McAl, the National Sports Commission, the Ministry of Sport, Trustees Pawn Shop, Hopkinson Mining and Roger Hinds for their financial support for the tournament.