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Friday, July 18, 2025

T&T, regional boxers clash in CAC warm-up

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2702 days ago
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TT boxer Michael Alexander

TT boxer Michael Alexander

WAL­TER AL­IBEY

The T&T Box­ing As­so­ci­a­tion has stepped up its prepa­ra­tion ahead of the Cen­tral Amer­i­can and Caribbean (CAC) Games Qual­i­fiers which is set for March 9-18 in Ti­jua­na Mex­i­co with a card that fea­tures T&T box­ers go­ing up against fight­ers from St Lu­cia, An­guil­la and Bar­ba­dos to­mor­row from 7 pm at the Cos­mic Box­ing Gym, Mara­bel­la.

Con­cerns about the team's trav­el, ac­com­mo­da­tion and meals were tak­en care off by the T&T Olympic Com­mit­tee, leav­ing the team of Nigel Paul, Michael Alexan­der, Jesse Beck­les and Tian­na Guy to fo­cus on sharp­en­ing up their per­for­mances in the ring.

Ce­cil Forde, pres­i­dent of the box­ing as­so­ci­a­tion said they are now at­tempt­ing to source ad­di­tion­al fund­ing to in­crease the pool of box­ers for the qual­i­fiers.

To­mor­row's mouth-wa­ter­ing card will fea­ture the best of T&T against their re­gion­al coun­ter­parts, all of whom have been prepar­ing with them at David Bed and Break­fast box­ing camp in Saly­bia, To­co.

Paul who has strug­gled to re­ceive spar­ring part­ners here in the past due to the scarci­ty of fight­ers in his weight cat­e­go­ry, is set to face his biggest test for the past month while Alexan­der, Beck­les and Guy will al­so be put to the test. En­try for the card will be $40.

Forde said be­cause of the work done at the camp to date, it is now be­ing em­braced by their re­gion­al neigh­bours. The lo­cal box­ing boss thanks David Joseph, own­er of the Saly­bia re­sort and ex TT box­er, for mak­ing the camp pos­si­ble, as well as all cor­po­rate cit­i­zens who pro­vid­ed food items etc to make the camp suc­cess­ful.

Mean­while in two re­cent cards be­tween TT box­ers and their coun­ter­parts from the Caribbean, there were wins for Aaron Has­sette and Aaron Prince, both of whom are com­pet­ing for a spot on the TT team. Re­sults are shown be­low.

FEB­RU­ARY 16 RE­SULTS

60kg

1.Christo­pher De Fre­itas (TT) vs Ka­reem Boyce (St Luc)

WIN­NER: Ka­reem Boyce STL (Split De­ci­sion)

64kg

2.Joshua Sylvester (TT) vs Nathan Fer­rari (St Luc)

WIN­NER: Nathan Fer­rari (Unan­i­mous De­ci­sion)

75kg

3.Nile Mo­hammed (TT) vs Ken­w­al Hodge (An­guil­la)

WIN­NER: Nile Mo­hammed Unan­i­mous Dci­sion

75kg

4. Nathan Debe­sette (TT) vs Curlun Richard­son (An­guil­la)

WIN­NER: Nathan Debe­sette Dis­qual­i­fi­ca­tion

75kg

5.Mar­vin An­tho­ny (St Luc) vs Nick­ell Joseph (TT)

WIN­NER: Mar­vin An­tho­ny STL

81kg

6.Ty­rone St Clair (Siparia BG) vs Aaron Prince (Prince Glad­i­a­tors)

WIN­NER: Aaron Prince

75kg

7.Lyn­dell Mar­cellin (St Luc) vs Aaron Has­sette (TT)

WIN­NER: Aaron Has­sette Unan­i­mous De­ci­sion

To­mor­row's Card

60kg

1. Bless­ing Waldtropt (TT) vs Ka­reem Boyce (St Luc)

WIN­NER: Bless­ing Wal­dropt (3:2)

64kg

2.Nathan Fer­rari (St Luc) vs Jesse Beck­les (TT)

WIN­NER: Nathan Fer­rari RSC 3rd Round

75kg

3.Curlun Richard­son (An­guil­la) vs Nick­ell Joseph (TT)

WIN­NER: Nick­ell Joseph RSC 2nd Round


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