Na­tion­al box­er Ar­shad Fa­biean is "re­al­ly dis­gust­ed" by the re­marks that T&T Olympian, Car­los Suarez, made af­ter he was boot­ed out of the Olympics in his open­ing bout in the men's light fly­weight last Tues­day. Suarez made his de­but at the Games with a dis­mal 16-6 loss to Turkey's Fer­hat Pehli­van. Fol­low­ing his de­feat, the US-born box­er un­leashed an at­tack on the coun­try and the T&T Box­ing As­so­ci­a­tion (T&TBA) in the af­ter­match press con­fer­ence. "Buxo Potts is one of the worst box­ing peo­ple I have ever dealt with. He ac­tu­al­ly did noth­ing but try to bring down my con­fi­dence. And all the oth­er peo­ple in TTAB (TT­BA), they are liars," Suarez lament­ed. Suarez fur­ther added that he has "no in­ten­tion what­so­ev­er of turn­ing pro or do­ing any­thing in Trinidad." Fa­biean said that up­on Suarez's qual­i­fi­ca­tion for the Olympics in Brazil, he chal­lenged the Olympian to fight but got no re­sponse. Fa­biean be­lieves that Suarez avoid­ed fight­ing him af­ter he em­bar­rassed the 18-year-old US res­i­dent dur­ing a tele­vised train­ing ses­sion pri­or to his de­par­ture for Lon­don. "When he came back (from Brazil) to Trinidad, Suarez and I had a spar­ring ses­sion in view of the me­dia cam­eras. They (the pub­lic) viewed me putting a beat­ing on Suarez. He didn't even have ah an­swer, I was pound­ing on him like an African drum.

Coach (Reynold) Cox walked over in the train­ing ses­sion and told me 'Aye you not sup­posed to hit him, you sup­posed to take cuff. He's the Olympian, show him re­spect.' I was sur­prised and some­what de­mor­al­ized by what coach Cox told me. I looked around to see if any­one heard what coach Cox told me and in do­ing (so I) Mr Boxu Potts told me, 'make him earn his re­spect don't give him any'." "Suarez al­ways kept his dis­tance but will al­ways drop small talk say­ing 'I beat you al­ready so I don't have to prove any­thing, you are noth­ing.' So I sim­ply said 'Here what, let's spar again be­fore you leave.' Not ex­pect­ing any­thing of him, he ran like a lit­tle scared child. Mak­ing ex­cus­es ga­lore!", ex­pound­ed Fa­biean. Fa­biean's con­tempt was com­pound­ed even more af­ter he heard Suarez's com­ments about the coun­try af­ter his Olympic trounc­ing. "I was re­al­ly dis­gust­ed by Suarez's com­ments be­cause he took the sport I love and ran it through the gut­ter, and more so my coun­try, which he went to rep­re­sent on the glob­al stage."