T&T's Stephon Cox, Trevor Barrett and Stephanie Lazar were the only winners for T&T on the opening day of the Caribbean Boxing Championship at the National Cycling Centre (NCC) at Balmain Couva on Thursday.
Cox, one of many rising talents for T&T in the sport, first defeated Lemar Tull of Barbados on points for his first victory in a regional novice contest while Lazar made light work out of Guyana's Ocean Daniellys, also on points. And in the other TT bout, Barrett whipped Allan Charles of Grenada on points.
Despite fielding its largest contingent in a regional tournament, yesterday's action was dominated mostly by other Caribbean fighters, all attempting to use the competition as a warm-up ahead of next year's Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan.
In a light welterweight contest Antigua's Ryan Alston defeated Nathan Farrari of St Lucia by walk-over and Colin Lewis of Guyana prevailed over Cuba's Jorge Moiran from the points of two judges. Joshua Frazer who wore the red jersey in his welterweight clash with Kevin Mc Kenzie of Guyana, showed his superiority in the fight, winning on points, while Barbados' Kiomel Miller got the better of Jonathan Hanson of Jamaica, again by points scored by the judges in a middleweight clash.
In other results: Middleweight Triston Brooks of Grenada needed points to prevail over Desmond Ansterdam of Guyana: Andy Andall (Grenada) got the better of Kevin Hunte (Guyana) by points in a Super Heavyweight fight: Jon-Mikol Rankin (Cayman Islands) reigned supreme over Keith Major of Bahamas in the novice middleweight division on points: Tiffany Delice (Barbados) defeated Lisa Frazer on points in the Women's novice featherweight division contest.