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‘Menace’ is Team Guyana’s captain for C/Bean Development Boxing
Local amateur middleweight king Dennis ‘Menace’ Thomas has been named captain of
Dennis ‘Menace’ Thomas (left) and Terrence Poole at the C/Wealth Games.
the Guyana team currently training for the Caribbean Development Boxing tournament. Thomas, the most experienced member, has been put in charge of the team that comprises 38 boxers.
Head of the Guyana Boxing Association Steve Ninvalle disclosed that the Police Corporal had distinguished himself in the last year and has proven to be a model sportsman. Last year the lanky 27-year-old made it to the quarter-final of the Commonwealth Games.
He was also adjudged Best Boxer at the inaugural Goodwill Games tournament held at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall in February, 2014. Twenty-eight of the local fighters are at present encamped at Camp Seweyo on the Linden/Soesdyke Highway.
The boxers are being trained by a team of coaches headed GBA Technical Director Terrence Poole. The Caribbean Development Tournament is scheduled to punch off next week Thursday at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.
Fourteen (14) countries have registered to participate in what is touted to be the largest congregation of overseas teams here for any sporting activity.
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