Pro­fes­sion­al and am­a­teur box­ing will re­turn to T&T on Feb­ru­ary 1 at the South­ern Re­gion­al In­door Sports Are­na, Pleas­antville, San Fer­nan­do with a mouth-wa­ter­ing eight-bout card that will be put on through a col­lab­o­ra­tive ef­fort of the T&T Box­ing As­so­ci­a­tion and Fine Line Fight Fac­to­ry of Ch­agua­nas.

On that card, the coun­try's emerg­ing fe­male box­ing prodi­gy Faith Ram­nath will get a much-await­ed re­match with Amer­i­can Jew­el Lam­bert, the same box­er who de­feat­ed her at the Na­tion­al Box­ing Cham­pi­onship, late last year.

The card la­belled 'Span­ish In­va­sion', will fea­ture T&T best fight­ers com­ing up against box­ers from neigh­bour­ing Venezuela and Cu­ba for brag­ging rights and ti­tles.

The Ram­nath/Lam­bert fly­weight women's con­test will head­line the am­a­teur events, a fight that Ram­nath has been clam­our­ing for, af­ter feel­ing she was robbed in the ini­tial con­test be­tween them at the Na­tion­al Cy­cling Cen­tre (NCC) in Bal­main Cou­va. Ram­nath's pro­mot­er and match-mak­er Boxu Potts told the me­dia his fight­er was made to bat­tle against some­one in a dif­fer­ent weight class to her.

He al­so said Ram­nath, the on­ly fight­er ca­pa­ble of re­plac­ing mul­ti­ple-times World Cham­pi­on fight­er Giselle Sa­landy, was not giv­en a fair weigh-in be­fore the fight by TT­BA of­fi­cials.

The night's ac­tiv­i­ties will al­so fea­ture T&T's Olympic heavy­weight box­er Nigel Paul com­ing against Cuban Car­los Castil­lo Ro­driguez, while T&T's dec­o­rat­ed mid­dleweight fight­er Michael Alexan­der will have the chance to avenge his loss to Cuban Jorge Mo­ri­an Vin­cent.

Mak­ing their pro de­but will be Yu­ray Cis­nero of Fine Line and Ed­uar­do Med­i­na, who box­es out of the Cos­mic Box­ing Gym in Mara­bel­la.

Box­ing As­so­ci­a­tion pres­i­dent, Ce­cil Forde said he was en­cour­aged to be a co-pro­mot­er of the pro-am event.

“For the past eight years or so, pro­fes­sion­al Box­ing has been strug­gling in this coun­try. T&T has a very colour­ful and suc­cess­ful his­to­ry in pro box­ing, where­by both male and fe­male world cham­pi­ons have been pro­duced. In re­cent years, nu­mer­ous at­tempts have been made to get things hap­pen­ing once more, but with lit­tle suc­cess. Bhar­rath Ra­moutar of Fine Line Fight Pro­mo­tions has been the dri­ving force, do­ing every­thing pos­si­ble, try­ing to re­vive the pro as­pect of the sport and he has re­fused to give up. The TT­BA has de­cid­ed to get in­volved and do its part in this lat­est ef­fort,” Forde ex­plained.

The Pro­fes­sion­al card:

Ed­uar­do Med­i­na (Ven) vs Akeil Out­rum (T&T), Yu­ray Cis­nero (Cu­ba) vs Tevoy Bar­ret (Ja­maica).

Am­a­teur card:

Nigel Paul (TT) vs Car­los Castil­lo Ro­driguez (Cu­ba), Jessie Beck­les (TT) vs Herich Ruiz Cor­do­ba (Cu­ba), Michael Alexan­der (TT) vs Jorge Mo­ri­an Vin­cent (Cu­ba), Ty­ron Thomas (Gold­en Fist) vs Stan­ley Brooks (Bio­mel), An­tho­ny Joseph (World Class) vs Ron­dell Phillip (Rough House), Faith Ram­nath (Faith Box­ing Club) vs Jew­el Lam­bert (Gold­en Fist).