Lezama boxes YTC past ‘The Rest’

This year’s card, YTC versus “The Rest,” featured action- packed bouts with great improvement from the YTC Conquerors under their coach Jason Aqui.

This year, Romel Lezama of the YTC Conquerors took the award for boxer of the night, and Nyrell Hosein of Biomel Boxing Gym won the most promising boxer award.

Nine of the 12 bouts on the day featured YTC boxers against boxers from other clubs. Joshua Janet (61kg category), Sherkeem Hernandez (56kg), Josiah Hunte (68kg), Joseph George (75kg) and Lezama (69kg) all got wins for YTC.

Earning victories for “The Rest” were Hanebal Grimes (91kg) of SEPOS, Hosein (46kg), Aaron Williams (75kg) of BBGD and Tyron Thomas (84kg) of SYM Golden Fist.

In other bouts on the day, Abdul Taylor (39kg) was a winner in a Biomel Boxing Gym contest against Nicolai Hodge; Blessing Waldropt (54kg) of Biomel Boxing Gym defeated Kevin Ramdeo of Cosmic Boxing Gym; Jesse Beckles (64kg) of Cosmic Boxing Gym outlasted Akiel Thomas of SEPOS.

A special award was presented to Allan Joseph for his years of contribution towards the rehabilitation of the youngsters through the sport of boxing.

The TT BA is aiming to have regular boxing cards as they prepare for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Reynold Cox, vice-president and technical director of the TT BA, is hoping that three TT boxers will qualify for that Olympics. Only Super heavyweight Nigel Paul qualified for the Rio 2016 Olympics.