Opportunity of a lifetime knocks for Mark Austin

Mark Austin does pad work during one of his training sessions at the Andrew ‘Sixhead’ Lewis gym. Orlando Charles photo.

By Emmerson Campbell

If the saying that opportunity comes at least once in everyone’s lifetime is true, the opportunity of boxer Mark Austin’s life has now presented itself.

“We will be bringing Mark Austin to Trinidad to fight on a professional card on February 12, on my promotion. As long as he wins we will form a management team which I will be a part of and with a victory, he will be entitled to enter the WBC CABOFE 50th anniversary tournament with the winner netting US 250,000.”

So said President of the Caribbean Promoters Association (CPA) and Trinidad of Tobago’s Kick Boxing Federation, Jason Fraser during an exclusive interview with Stabroek Sport yesterday at