By Sean Devers
The second night of the Terrence Ali National Open Boxing Championships on Saturday was marred by four walk-overs and a no-show of the GDF Band Corps.

On another cold and windy night, the fair-sized gathering saw three of the four walk-overs by police boxers, reportedly due to being overweight.

The night’s proceedings started with Kendal Demonic of the Forgotten Youth Foundation (FYF) beating Rose Hall Jammers’ (RHJ) Okenwa Bushel, and Euancy Marshall of VGJ (a Suriname club) defeating Matthew Thomas of RFJ in the School Boys division.

In the Elites Minimumweight (48 KGs) Richard Subratee of FYF beat GDF’s Ronaldo Sutton to advance to last night’s final.

The diminutive Sutton kept rushing forward and throwing a barrage of punches with most of them missing their target.

A ‘right’ found Subratee’s head but it was a glancing blow and the fighters ‘tied up’ each other on the ropes to end the first round.

The second started in similar fashion to the first but Sabratee, by far the taller of the two, landed more measured shots to his opponent’s body and worked Jabs to Sutton’s head.

The third and final round saw the GDF Boxer lounging forward and being caught with a right hook to his head and a body dig to his ribs.

But that did not stop him coming forward throwing some wild shots and towards the end of the round he used up all of his energy.

The Lightweight bout between Joel Williamson of RHJ and GDF’s Michael Maynard was an entertaining contest with the Berbician taking a crunching body blow and being given a standing 8-count.

Williamson looked calm and clinical as he found the mid-section with perfect body digs and penetrated Maynard’s defence with well executed straight rights resulting in the contest being stopped in 1.4 seconds of the second round.

The welterweight battle between FYF’s Mark Crawford and Policeman Donavan Richardson was also well received by those in attendance.

Both fighters were warned for ‘slapping’ and not keeping their heads up as both went toe-to-toe with good combinations to the body and head.

In a contest which had plenty of counter punching, the pugilist from the Albouystown gym (FYF) emerged the winner.

The most entertaining bout of the night was in the Super Heavyweight clash with Suriname’s Leandro Dongo versus Aubrey Headley, representing defending Champions the GDF.

The tall and strapping Dongo tried to intimidate the soldier and as he was being introduced even made a gesture of cutting off the head of his opponent.

But when the bell rang it was Headley who was the aggressor, hammering away to Dongo’s unprotected stomach much to the delight of the fans in the stands who were on their feet.

The Suriname fighter tried to retaliate and scored with some telling shots to the head of the shorter Headley but Headley was in a dominant mood hitting left-right combos to the head of Dongo.

Dongo, nicknamed the ‘quiet storm, never really gathered speed.

A powerful right cross resulted in the ‘baby Hulk’ being given a standing 8 count as the Guyanese battered Dongo into submission.

Headley faced VBG’s Kevin Harris in last night’s final after beating GDF’s Trevon King on Saturday night.

In the other matches, Police’s Clifton Graham beat GDF’s Colin Hinds in the Light middleweight division while GDF’s Desmond Amsterdam won his fight over Corwin D’anjou by abandonment

Emanuel Pompey from WPBG beat GDF’s Dwayne July in a Heavyweight battle.

GDF’s Troy Glasgow wasted little time in stopping Police’s Christopher James in 10 seconds of the first round in the Super Heavyweight fight
Richard Howard of FYF beat GDF’s Jermaine Grant while Clifton Graham from FYF beat Colin Hinds from GDF.

Police Boxers Cartlon Wong (against Komal Kissoon GDF), Danile Melville (Vs Colin Lewis GDF) and Dexter Wray (Vs Deron Williams Police) provided walk-overs while GDF’s Orlando Grenville failed to show up for his fight against RHJ’s Jamal Eastman