Fine Line Fight Factory to celebrate silver jubilee

Ramoutar, who founded the club in 1992, does not only focus on boxing at the club as kickboxing, muay thai, ju-jitsu, san shou and mixed martial arts (MMA) are all part of the club’s activities.

Ramoutar said he is proud that the club has been in existence for 25 years. Ramoutar said, “Well that feeling is really great. When I founded the club back in 1992, it did not have much clubs in terms of the vision I had for ring sports. I founded the Fine Line Fight Factory with the vision of creating the term ring sport. We started to pioneer kickboxing and so on, what we know as MMA today.

Fine Line Fight Factory was the first club in the country to pioneer MMA. It was an uphill task at first to get people to accept it, but it eventually reached far.” Some of the notable fighters the club have produced are Ria Ramnarine (four-time world boxing champion/Pan American kickboxing champion), Donald Snaggs (Golden Belt Martial Arts Association Pan American kickboxing champion), Jason Ramoutar (world kickboxing champion 2014) and Floyd Trumpet (national kickboxing champion). Last year, Trumpet was Nigel Paul’s coach at the 2016 Rio Olympics. Paul represented Trinidad and Tobago in the super heavyweight category in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Ramoutar says he has a mission to produce another world champion and get on the podium at the Olympics. “My goal personally is to produce another world champion, a male world boxing champion, that is my immediate goal. Also, we are going to try to get an Olympian to win a medal at the Olympics.” Ramoutar said lightweight boxer Prince-Lee Isidore has the potential to reach far. “Prince- Lee Isidore, he is poised. He was supposed to be a world champion about three years ago, but because of the local politics and so on and being stagnated, he has been sitting on the bench.

He has what it takes, he is almost there. At one point he was just three fights away from a world title fight, but as I said stagnation killed his growth.” Ramnarine, who was recently inducted into the International Women’s Boxing Hall of Fame, has been a member of the club for 22 years.

Ramnarine said, “I feel super proud (to be part of the club) for many reasons. I have seen Fine Line grow from strength to strength.

Regardless of all the trials and tribulations that the gym has been through, in various ways we have always been able to grow from it and to develop, get better and always be successful. I am really proud to be a member and to be a member of an institution that is so long standing.” A function will be held tomorrow to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the club