-national heavyweight champion `Big’ Mitchell Rogers
laments the paucity of local heavyweight boxers around
and calls out Andre `Stone’ Purlett
By Troy Peters
With the recent installation of a new executive for the Guyana Boxing Board of Control (GBBC) local boxers are hoping that more will be done to keep them active as the sport faces an uphill task to survive locally.
Boxing cards have been few and far between. Many promoters view promoting fights now as a high-risk financial venture because crowd support has waned due to in most part the quality of fighters available.
