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Sunday, July 20, 2025

Ramnath protests boxing loss

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Sports Desk
2083 days ago
20191107
Boxing promoter Boxu Potts, left,  Russell Ramnath, right, the father of Faith at centre.

Boxing promoter Boxu Potts, left, Russell Ramnath, right, the father of Faith at centre.

Ris­ing box­ing tal­ent Raith Ram­nath is cry­ing foul af­ter be­ing placed in an al­leged un­even­ly-matched bout with Unit­ed States-based T&T fight­er Jew­el Lam­bert at the just con­clud­ed Na­tion­al Box­ing Cham­pi­onships at the Jean Pierre Com­plex in Mu­cu­rapo.

The fight cost Ram­nath her third loss in her short ca­reer, but is­sues of un­der-hand­ed­ness an­gered her at a press con­fer­ence at the Ali­cia's Guest House in St Ann's on Tues­day.

Ram­nath's man­age­ment team, head­ed by pro­mot­er and match-mak­er Boxu Potts said the weigh-ins were done at sep­a­rate venues in Mara­bel­la and San­gre Grande, which is a breach of pro­to­col in the sport that led to Lam­bert en­ter­ing the ring heav­ier than she ought to in the 49-51 kg con­test.

"This is cor­rup­tion and there­fore, the bout should be ruled null and void, and all the of­fi­cials of the T&T Box­ing As­so­ci­a­tion should re­sign im­me­di­ate­ly," Potts said. Potts who be­lieves the op­er­a­tions of the TT­BA has been coun­ter­pro­duc­tive and hinges on the de­vel­op­ment of young box­ers de­scribed the weigh-ins as il­le­gal.

"As we are all aware, the laws of the land su­per­sedes any of AI­BA's laws, and the laws of the lands said when­ev­er a box­er has to fight in T&T, a per­mit must be grant­ed by the T&T Box­ing Board of Con­trol, to en­sure the fight is a le­gal one. In Faith Ram­nath's case, one of the box­ers weighed-in in San­gre Grande, while Ram­nath weighed-in at Bat­too Av­enue Mara­bel­la. That weigh-in is an il­le­gal one. No one from Ram­nath's team wit­nessed the weigh-in of Lam­bert and vice ver­sa. When a fight is tak­ing place the box­ing board must en­sure that it is even."

Ram­nath said all she wants is the op­por­tu­ni­ty to rep­re­sent her coun­try and have fair fights.

Potts took a jab at Ria Ram­nar­ine, his ex-fight­er, who is a mem­ber of the TT­BA, and un­der whose watch he said, an il­le­gal weigh-in took place.

At­tempts to con­tact Ce­cil Forde, pres­i­dent of the TT­BA for a com­ment, proved fu­tile.


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