Local amateur boxers continue to excel

By Michael DaSilva
LOCAL amateur boxers continued their dominance of the `Back to the Future’ Caribbean Boxing Tournament which concludes this evening at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall with the finals in all weight divisions of the various categories.On Friday evening, the locals won four of their eight contests’ while loosing one. The figure was the same on the opening night on Thursday.
Winning for Guyana on Friday evening were Jamal Eastman, Dewani Lampkin, Clairmont Gibson and Eon Fraser, while the locals suffered their lone loss as Christopher Moore lost his junior category featherweight contest by a split decision which went in favour of Jamaica’s Daniel Hylton.
Eastman secured a walk over victory as Trinidad and Tobago’s (T&T) Nicholas Alexander failed to take to the ring for the bantamweight fight in the Youth Category.
Lampkin then gave the locals their second victory by securing a unanimous points decision victory over Barbados’ Justin Edwards in a light welterweight bout in the Youth Category.
Fighting in the Elite category, Clairmont Gibson scored a Technical Knock-Out win over Dominica’s Simon Joseph in one minute 50 seconds of the second round in a bantamweight contest, while in the same category, Fraser did not have to wait on the referee to stop his contest against Grenada’s Christopher Andall, as the latter surrendered himself at two minutes 38 seconds of the second round in the super heavyweight division.
In other results, French Guiana’s Leonardo Mosques defeated Bahamas’ Israelo Johanson via the Technical Knock-Out route at two minutes 20 seconds of the third round in their light heavyweight contest of the Elite category.
In the junior category, Justin Parris of T&T kno9cked out French Guiana’s Rene Claude Dulloard at onje minute 15 seconds of the first round in their featherweight bout in the Junior category.
In the Youth category, Jaball Breedy was too good for St. Marteen’s Anthony Phillips in their bantamweight bout and the referee stopped the contest at two minutes 19 seconds of the third round.
Guadeloupe’s Keshan Jacoby-Koaly was too good for T&T’s Jemicha Jones in their lightweight co9ntest in the Juniors’ category and the referee stopped the fight at one minute three.02 seconds of the second round.
Guadeloupe’s Jeremie Cointre was not so fortunate as his countryman Jacoby-Koaly as he (Cointre) lost by a unanimous points decision against T&T’s Christian McDonald in their light welterweight contest in the Youth category.
Antigua and Barbuda’s Lance Robinson secured a Technical Knock-Out win in the third round against Anguilla’s Quammaine Elie.
Barbados’ Charloes Cox won by a unanimous decision over French Guiana’[s Roger Sioon in a middleweight contest of the Novices category and Senthilo Kumar of Antigua and Barbuda secured a Technical Knock-Out victory over T&T’s Shakir Flemming in their light heavyweight contest in the Novices category also.
The tournament continued yesterday with two sessions, one from 16:00hrs and the second from 18:00hrs.
The development tournament will conclude this evening at the same venue beginning at 18:00hrs.