GBA Developmental Competition: Emerging talent on show this weekend

Nov 13, 2025 Sports

Kaieteur Sports – Forty-five years after Michael Parris brought home Guyana’s first Olympic medal (bronze) at the 1980 Games in Moscow, the sport of boxing still remains the most likely path for Guyana to secure its next medal.

This is still the opinion of many pundits, who firmly believe that given adequate injection of funding and exposure, the talent seen in the sport, could develop into world class fighters that can bring glory to this nation.

GBA Developmental Competition: Emerging talent on show this weekend

Some of the new talent expected to be on show going through their paces in preparation for the event.

This weekend’s Developmental Competition organized by the Guyana Boxing Association (GBA) at the Andrew ‘Sixhead’ Lewis Gym in Albouystown is one more opportunity to showcase the young emerging talent that reside in the sport.

Apart from having home-court advantage, the young pugilists from the Albouystown community will be pitting their skills against opponents from gyms such as the Guyana Defence Force, the Guyana Police Force, Harpy Eagles, Pace and Power, Berbice Academy and Hopetown Jammers.

Following hot on the heels of the recently held Terrence Poole National Intermediate Tournament, where fans got the opportunity to see local fighters go up against a few Cuban counterparts, this competition is specifically designed to talent spot the next generation of boxers.

National Coach Lennox Daniels in an invited comment, said this weekend’s tournament is aimed at identifying the next brigade of fighters that will represent Guyana in the future, adding that there are quite a few naturally talented ones who are expected to be on show.

He urged fans to come out and have a glimpse of the emerging prospects.

“As you know Kevin (Allicock) is a semi-pro now, while boxers such as Desmond Amsterdam and others are at the tail-end of their amateur careers so now is the time for us to develop a new breed of boxers that will replace some of these guys.”

According to Daniels, a longstanding coach with outstanding credentials, having coached fighters such as ‘Sixhead’ Lewis and Gwendolyn ‘Stealth Bomber’ O’Neil among others, the current crop of emerging boxers has already demonstrated superb talent and it is now up to the coaches, including himself, to assist in nurturing that raw ability.

Meanwhile, President of GBA Steve Ninvalle in brief comments during the staging of the Terrence Poole Intermediate tourney, assured fans of the sport that many more competitions are on the horizon and expressed confidence that Guyana’s next Olympic medal hope will come from boxing.

Bell time this Saturday is 16:30hrs.

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