boxing card slated for Boxing Day sign their respective contracts on Friday
All doubts have been removed and it’s now official. Professional boxers appearing on the Guyana Boxing Board of Control’s (GBBC) ProAm boxing card slated for Boxing Day (December 26), on Friday inked their contracts at the office of Abdool and Abdool Insurance Company in Georgetown.
The card will be staged at the Mackenzie Sports Club ground in the Mining Town of Linden for the first time, featuring four professional and a similar number of amateur fights.
Those boxers who have affixed their respective signatures to the contract documents at Friday’s signing ceremony were Derick Richmond, James Walcott, Cassius Matthews, Kishan Simon, Kelsie George, Romeo Norville, Shondell Parks and Shelly Gibson.
Richmond will don gloves against Walcott in the main encounter, a 12-rounder for the vacant Super Middlewight title of Guyana; Matthews will be coming up against Simon in a sixround Junior Welterweight contest; George will battle with Norville in a four round Super Middleweight fight and Parks and Gibson will match gloves in their four-round Heavyweight showdown.
Apart from the four professional fights, there will also be four amateur bouts on the card, but to date the names of the boxers have not been released. All the amateur fighters will be from Linden.
Meanwhile, speaking at Friday’s signing ceremony, promoter Omo To La Goulding said the card is being held in an effort to create opportunities for young boxers and also the promotion of the sport locally.
Further, he said that once next month’s card is a success, promoters are willing to host a card quarterly.
