– Ninvalle to attend AIBA Executive Committee in Dubai November 3 – 5

FOLLOWING their meeting held in Georgetown last weekend, Caribbean Boxing officials will make a formal pitch to the sport’s world Governing Body, the International Boxing Association (AIBA), for a Caribbean Boxing Academy to be built in Guyana.
President of the Guyana Boxing Association (GBA), Steve Ninvalle  will be formally making the proposal to AIBA at the body’s November 3 – 5 Executive Meeting in Dubai. Ninvalle is an Executive Committee Member, and was recently named on AIBA’s Executive Committee Bureau.

Speaking with Chronicle Sport yesterday, Ninvalle explained that the idea to have Guyana as the regional home for the sport, is because of the country’s availability of land.
“Preferably in the hinterland region, because the idea is for the fighters to be isolated so that they attention could be on boxing and boxing only” Ninvalle said when asked about where the proposed facility could be located.
According to Ninvalle, the regional officials agreed to have the facility built in Guyana and that the idea actually came from the officials representing mainly Trinidad and Tobago and Barbados.

The American Boxing Confederation (AMBC) through their president, Osvaldo Rafael Bisbal, according to Ninvalle, called the proposal “a much-needed” item for Caribbean boxing, and that Guyana is the best suited location for the facility.
Bisbal was in Guyana for last Saturday’s meeting, where the presidents from several countries gathered to discuss pertinent issues that are affecting the sport in the region and to collectively agree to certain principles with regards to the turmoil in AIBA.
Bisbal, Ninvalle said, told the presidents that the Academy is something the AMBC will fully support.