For just US$5, box­ing fans will get the op­por­tu­ni­ty via a live stream, to see an en­ter­tain­ing event fea­tur­ing so­ca artistes An­tho­ny La Fleur, who is known pop­u­lar­ly as “Squeezy Rankin” and Mar­vin 'Swap­pi' Davis in ac­tion at a Sea Lots venue on Feb­ru­ary 26.

Swap­pi has not been tak­ing this fight light­ly and has been train­ing with the T&T box­ing team at a Pe­tit Val­ley gym where he has been get­ting spar­ring ses­sions with this coun­try's Su­per Heavy­weight fight­er Nigel Paul.

" So far, I am train­ing with the T&T na­tion­al box­ing team for about two weeks now. This is my sec­ond week, I have been do­ing some spar­ring with Nigel Paul and a lot of their am­a­teur fight­ers, get­ting some tips here and there to just sharp­en up on my skills and build on my con­di­tion etc. I am go­ing in 100 per­cent for this fight," Swap­pi said.

The op­por­tu­ni­ty that af­ford­ed Swap­pi to train with the na­tion­al team is part of an open-door pol­i­cy by the na­tion­al team and its coach­es Reynold Cox, Rawl­son Dop­well, Ul­ric John­son and new coach Yuri Sorzano to help peo­ple out if they are in­ter­est­ed in box­ing, Cox told Guardian Me­dia Sports.

Cox ad­mit­ted that with con­tin­ued train­ing Swap­pi will be a force to be reck­oned with for his fight. He lat­er said jok­ing­ly that Swap­pi, the man who rocked the na­tion with pop­u­lar so­ca hits such as 'Buck­et' in 2012, 'Jumbie Head' in 2020 and 'God is Ah Tri­ni' in 2021 is not rul­ing out a se­ri­ous go for a spot on the na­tion­al team, say­ing: " You can nev­er know what can hap­pen, the sky is the lim­it and once you have the pas­sion and the dri­ve, every­thing is there to your dis­pos­al.

So it's up to me if I want to go for­ward and ex­per­i­ment on that and see what it's like."

Or­gan­is­ers of the event la­belled 'Ease Your Frus­tra­tion' were set to fi­nalise the venue for the event. Apart from the main fight, there will be an un­der­card bout be­tween en­ter­tain­ers Umi Mar­cano and Ker­ry John.

Swap­pi said the event will com­prise light live en­ter­tain­ment that will take place be­fore the bouts. How­ev­er, he made it clear that or­gan­is­ers will be se­vere­ly strict in ad­her­ence to the COVID-19 pro­to­cols.

" I am very strict with the pro­to­cols be­cause we don't want to em­bar­rass the box­ing board which is in­ter­est­ed in what is tak­ing place, we don't want to look bad to the out­side world by dis­re­spect­ing the covid pro­to­cols," Swap­pi ex­plained.