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Novice Boxing Championships conclude…Republican Boxing Gym tops rivals; Glenroy Smith and Taseka Howard are best boxers
By Michael Benjamin
The hand of Female winner Taseka Howard (FYF) is raised by the referee following her TKO of Tanesha Dorway.
After years of agitation and commitment, the Guyana Prison Service finally came through and their boxers outshone their Guyana Defence Force nemesis to cart off the Champion Gym trophy when the curtains were drawn on the Guyana Boxing Association (GBA) National Novices Boxing Championships at the East Ruimveldt Community Centre Ground, California Square Saturday evening last; the soldiers had to settle for second place.
Essequibo Boxing Gym representative, Glenroy Smith, continued his good form of the inaugural night when he stopped Daniel Gibson (GDF) in the first round and then out-pointed Wayne Murray (GDF).
The classy pugilist returned to score another first round technical knockout over Mervin Rawlins to clinch the 75kgs title as well as the best boxer award. Taseka Howard of Forgotten Youth Foundation (FYF) displayed good skill and had the referee stop her fight against Tanesha Dorway in the third round to win the Female 54kg and later adjudged the best female boxer.
In all, there were 20 fights with 10 of them finishing inside the distance. In the 49kgs class, Andel Douglas (GDF) forced the referee to halt his bout against Ravinda Bissoodia (Republican Gym) in the first round while in the 52kgs category Dequan Kawall of Republican Gym (RG) won after his fight against Richard Gordon (RG) was also halted in the 2nd round.
Two other Republicans, Stepan Andrews and Delon Naitiram clashed in the 56kgs category and the former boxer prevailed after the referee halted the bout in the 2nd round.
Stephan Julian (RG) also defeated his gym mate, Julian DeSilva, forcing the referee to call a halt to their 60kgs contest in round two. Another Republican, Klaus Daniels, maintained the tempo when he caused the referee to halt his 64kgs bout against Kemo Bernard (FYF) in the 3rd stanza moments before Republican boxer, Clifton Graham, scored a first round TKO over Desmond Blair (GDF) to take the 69kgs title.
Delon Gordon (RG) maintained the sequence and stopped Quee Brotherson (GDF) in the 3rd round to cart off the honours in the 81kgs category moments before two boxers of the FYF, Akeem August and Kevin DeFraitas opposed each other with the former pugilist carting off the honours on points.
This Republican fighter suffers a TKO at the hands of his GDF opponent.
The night fittingly ended on a high note for Republican, Eon Fraser, who pummelled his gym mate, John Champayne into submission to win the 91kgs division.
The night started on an action packed note when Theo Bumbury (FYF) defeated Calvin Barry of New Opportunity Corp (NOC) to win the juniors 75-80lbs category just before Shaquancy Wright staged a resurged effort to defeat Shemar Bumbury (FYF) in a toe to toe 85-89lbs affair. Shaquile Simon (PRBG) turned in a spirited display against Kevin Allicock (HEBG) in the 95-9lbs category but it was not enough as the Albouystown youngster matched his grit and determination to prevail on points.
Christopher Moore (EBG) then won from his gym mate, Deshon Elcock in the 110-114lbs division just before Shane Skeete (HEBG) defeated Johnathon Hunte (FYF) for the 115-119 title after a bruising encounter.
Colin Hinds (PRBG) was too good for Samuel Ford (NOC) and pounded out a point’s victory in the 130-134lbs division. Two NOC representatives, Andrew Newton and Joel Bess clashed for the 140-149lbs title and the former pugilist went home with the honours after a crowd pleasing affair.
In the 150-160lbs division, Stefan Smith proved to be too good for Akeem Mounter while in the Youth category Junior Henry (FYF) prevailed over HEBG representative, Tefon Green. Dewani Lampkin (FYF) and Javaad Richards (HEBG) pounded each other for three rounds but in the end of the action packed contest, Lampkin emerged victorious.
The tournament was organized by the Guyana Boxing Association with support from the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport and the National Sports Commission.
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