FURNITURE and appliances `giant’ COURTS Guyana Inc. continued its support to the development of boxing in Guyana yesterday when its representatives handed over $300 000 to the Guyana Boxing Board of Control (GBBC) as support for the Board’s `Battle of the Contenders’ boxing card, scheduled for Saturday evening at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

Speaking at a simple handing-over ceremony at the company’s headquarters showroom, the company’s Public Relations and Promotions Officer Roberta Ferguson who chaired the proceedings said her company has always been supportive to boxing, both at the amateur and professional levels.
The company, she said, has also been very supportive to other disciplines such as Pee Wee football and athletics, among others.
Ferguson said the $300 000 is not the end of the company’s support to boxing, as the company is committed to assisting the sport as well as other disciplines in the future.
She used the opportunity to remind everyone that the annual COURTS 10K run is set for later in the month.
The company’s Marketing Manager Cornell Cummings echoed Ferguson’s remarks, adding that COURTS has been a part of boxing for many years and continues to support this and other sports.
He said COURTS has been on board since in the early careers of Shondell `The Mystery Lady’ Alfred and Dexter Marques.
Speaking on behalf of the GBBC, the board’s secretary Howard Cox thanked COURTS for ther contribution and noted that Cummings is an ardent boxing fan.
Cox endorsed the comments made by Ferguson and Cummings and said the GBBC has never been wayward since the Board’s `Fight Nights’ started some time ago, and from which many champions have emerged.
He explained that there was a hiatus in professional boxing recently, but this was because some of Guyana’s leading boxers were in Jamaica for a period of time contesting the Wray and Nephew Contender Series.
GBBC president Peter Abdool in a very brief remark thanked COURTS Guyana Inc. for its continued support and stated that the sport cannot improve without sponsorship of this kind.

(By Michael DaSilva)