Latest update May 22nd, 2026 12:38 AM
Former amateur boxer John ‘The Beast’ Brummel takes his final count
News of the passing of former junior/welterweight amateur boxer champion John Brummel has thrown the boxing community into mourning. Details pertaining to the former champion’s demise are sketchy but reliable sources told Kaieteur Sport that Brummel was rushed to the hospital about a week ago after he complained of severe pains in his chest.
John ‘The Beast’ Brummel
Brummel, who represented the now defunct Guyana National Service in the late seventies and early eighties, would be best remembered for his epic clashes against the Cubans during the exchange programmes arranged by the Boxing Association in collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
He also served as a corporal of the Guyana National Service and trained boxers of that team when he hung up his gloves in the mid eighties.
Brummel, who operated under the sobriquet ‘The Beast’ oft times vindicated the choice of his good friend and coach, the late Michael Barker, who felt that no other description could have sufficed for the tough junior welterweight.
Brummel’s contemporaries included former featherweight boxer, Wayne Smith, who also served as a corporal in the Guyana National Service. Other boxers that would have fought by Brummel’s side are the Alberts brothers, Ray and Herbert, Clinton Mars, former Fecarbox champion, Joseph Murray, Former Continental of Americas champion, Michael Benjamin, Clifford ‘Coolie Bully’ Vaughn, Wayne Harris and a host of others.
Over the past few years, Brummel had exorcised himself from the boxing fraternity because of work commitments as well as an urge to study Spanish at the Venezuela Cultural Centre.
Kaieteur Sport understands that Brummel would be interred this evening. More details would be published in a subsequent report.
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