GBA looking to take boxing to communities

Steve Ninvalle

The Guyana Boxing Association (GBA) will look to stage tournaments every two months all across the country following the highly successful Novices Championship last weekend at the East Ruimveldt Community Centre ground.

“GBA’s aim is to continue to take the sport to communities at least every two months,” the association’s president, Steve Ninvalle told Stabroek Sport recently.

“If we can have a boxing tournament every two months somewhere in Guyana, it will do the sport well so that’s the direction we will be going.

“I think it was an overwhelming response that we got from the people of East Ruimveldt and its environs, it shows us that we are moving in the right vein with taking boxing to the people.”

Ninvalle opined that “Sometimes it is quite arduous to jump in a minibus and special hires and of course that incurs a cost,