RHJ dominates with Best Gym, Best Coach, Best Boxer award
ALTHOUGH there was a power outage throughout the duration of yesterday’s Guyana Boxing Association (GBA) Mike Parris Schoolboys and Schoolgirls Boxing Championship at the Andrew ‘Six Head’ Lewis Gym in Albouystown, it did not disrupt the fistic fury demonstrated by the young pugilists on show.
When the dust settled just after 16:00hrs, the Rosehall Jammers (RHJ) from Corentyne, Berbice, were fittingly adjudged the Best Gym, while Coach Cort of RHT was named the Best Coach, and RHT’s Travis Sancho was awarded the event’s Best Boxer.
There were seven fights, including a female exhibition bout between the Barker siblings, Melani and Tofina, while one of most enterprising bouts of the tournament was between Berbician Sancho and Wayne Castello of Forgotten Youths Foundation (FYF).
The lads went at each other from the first bell, with both fighters executing some good shots, much to the delight of the small but raucous gathering made up of mostly boxers.
As the contest progressed and the boxers began to tire, Sancho was able to throw the more effective punches, with a mixture body shots and jabs to set up clinical rights to the head of Castello to win the fight.
Another good contest was between Tiquan Sampson and RHJ’s Shemroy Wintz, in which the technically correct Sampson caused the Referee to halt the fight in the third round, after Wintz was backed up on the ropes by a flurry of left-right combinations.
In the other results, Pace and Power’s Roopesh Balgobin lost to RHJ’s Reshawn Wilfery; Ken Harvey of RHJ beat Gym-mate Aubrey Austin; and Yusuf Edwards of P&P injured his right shoulder, causing his fight against FYF’s Ryan Rogers to be stopped in the third and final round.
Marlando Cameron of RHJ defeated Khumdu Alexander (Sean Devers)
