Olympian Aaron Prince guar­an­teed T&T at least a bronze medal at the 2022 Amer­i­can Box­ing Con­fed­er­a­tion Cham­pi­onships (AM­BC) when he won his mid­dleweight (71-75 kg) quar­ter­fi­nal bout against Paraguay’s Nico­las Al­varez at the Voltaire Pal­adines Po­lo Col­i­se­um in Guayaquil, Ecuador on Sat­ur­day night.

The 36-year-old Prince who be­came the old­est T&T ath­lete to rep­re­sent this coun­try in box­ing at the Tokyo Olympic Games was too much for his South Amer­i­can op­po­nent and won by knock­out which forced ref­er­ee Wul­fren Oli­vares of Colom­bia to stop the bout two min­utes in­to the first of three three-minute rounds.

In the semi­fi­nal, Prince, a mem­ber of the T&T De­fence Force will face USA’s Obed Em­manuel Bar­tee-El II who de­feat­ed Cana­da Dy­lan Joseph Mar­tin when Ar­gen­tine ref­er­ee Manuel Vi­lar­i­no stopped their con­test two min­utes and 20 sec­onds in­to the sec­ond round.

In the oth­er half of the mid­dleweight quar­ter­fi­nal, draw Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic’s Ser­gio An­gel Mo­quete faced Mex­i­can Hec­tor Aguirre while Guyana’s Desmon Am­s­ter­dan faced Venezue­lan El­dric Sel­la who sought asy­lum in T&T in 2018 and rep­re­sent­ed the Refugee Team at the last Olympic Games.

How­ev­er, T&T’s oth­er box­er in ac­tion on Sat­ur­day night, An­drew Fer­min was halt­ed in his quest for a medal by Cuban Herich Ruiz Cor­do­va, a bronze medal­list at the re­cent World Cham­pi­onship.

Cor­do­va won the fight when ref­er­ee Ra­mon Cobzac of Ro­ma­nia stopped the con­test two min­utes and 28 sec­onds in­to the sec­ond round.

On Sun­day night, T&T’s Tiana Guy went in­to ac­tion in the women’s feath­er­weight (54-57 kg) quar­ter­fi­nals against Guatemalan Leilany Nosh­bet Reyes Moreno.