– Former CABOFE president Abdool
Allicock to headline against DR’s Yendy Rodriguez

PRESIDENT of the Guyana Boxing Board of Control (GBBC) and former Caribbean Boxing Confederation (CABOFE) Peter Abdool said that the formation of the Caribbean Boxing Organization headed by Guyanese Seon Bristol could be a game changer for the regional sustenance of the sport.
“Mr. Bristol’s initiative addresses many things. First of all, it helps to produce more fights which is important, it bring on board other promoters like himself who will learn various aspects of the sport, especially how they operate and so on and it’s essentially an imperative for the sport to be sustained across the Caribbean; it is not just a Guyana Initiative,” Abdool said.
The CBO’s first card of the return of the Boxing Day activity will be headlined by Olympian Keevin Allicock and AMBC Bronze medalist Desmond Amsterdam.
Abdool, a board member of the World Boxing Council (WBC) says with the likes of Barbados, Trinidad, St Martin, Bahamas, Jamaica, St Lucia, Grenada and Curacao already signed on, the CBO has already had a tremendous start to its effort.

He added that it helps to set the tone of what is going to happen in the Caribbean with respect to boxing in the future.
On the Boxing Day card, Allicock who has a flawless international record in his three outings on the professional scene in the featherweight category, comes up against Yendy Rodriguez of Dominican Republic.
The other main event features Bahamas’s Rasheild Williams and Jamaica Nico Yeyo in the squared circle.
In the middleweight division, former Caribbean Champion Amsterdam will compete in his second professional bout against Wilson Fernanedez of Dominican Republic.
The under-card features Barbados’ Tyreec Tait against Grenada’s Rickenson Henry and Trinidad’s Tianna Guy will take on Dominican Republic Carl Paniague.
The other bout on the night sees Guyanese Terrence Adams fighting Anthony Joseph.
The long-time professional boxing administrator, Abdool, says that the tone of the first card is one with a Caribbean flavour.
‘While the first two main bouts are Keevin Allicock and Desmond Amsterdam, they are notably fighting people from the Dominican republic and on the card I see there is a Barbadian, Trinidadians, Bahamian which we will see for the first time and so on; so it is likely to be an extremely entertaining event because I think what has happened is the promoter got together and essentially picked the best of their fighters from the various countries, so what we are going to get I would imagine is going to be a treat.”
The organiser hopes to stage one fight annually in all eight nations signed on to the CBO in each territory.