RHT Jammers secures ‘Best Gym’ title

ROSE Hall Town Jammers (RHTJ) secured the Best Gym title when the first edition of the 2024 Pepsi/Mike Parris U16 School Boys and Girls Boxing Championships was conducted on Saturday at the Andrew ‘Six Head’ Lewis gym in Albouystown.

When the dust settled, RHTJ emerged as the overall winner, with Pace and Power finishing in the silver medal position in the five-team tournament.
The foregoing achievement resulted in Gregory ‘Chassis’ Cort of RHTJ walking away with the Best Coach title, while Ken Harvey of Pace and Power copped the Best Boxer accolade, and Arthur Scipio the Best Referee/Judge award.

The other gyms that competed were Bayley Boxing Gym, Andrew ‘Six Head’ Lewis, and Forgotten Youth Foundation.
10 fights were staged in this iteration of the monthly competition.

President of the Guyana Boxing Association (GBA) Steve Ninvalle said, “Our U-16 championship, which is the backbone of Guyana’s dominance within the English-speaking Caribbean, will continue in its current format of at least one monthly iteration. Moreover, the resuscitation of other gyms will add to the flavour and competitive nature of the event, as seven gyms are expected to participate in the next iteration.”

He added, “Youth programmes are the bedrock of the Association’s developmental agenda, and will always encompass the overall objective and architecture of the entity, which is to create a sustainable ecosystem for the discipline’s continued growth. This age group is, unquestionably, the most important, as it serves as the bridge and conduit between the amateur and professional strata. The importance of this platform cannot be quantified.”

In 2023, more than 18 iterations of the competition, which is administered by the GBA, were conducted. The entity is scheduled to surpass the aforementioned number during the current calendar year.

The aforesaid strategy, which serves primarily as a high-performance structure to better equip pugilists for the rigours of international competition, is supervised and administered by the technical and experienced trainers of National Coach Lennox Daniels, Technical Director Terrence Poole, and Cuban Coach Francisco Roldan.
The event also forms part of Guyana’s preparatory phase for the annual Caribbean School Boys and Junior Championship.