Group 4 ace drivers, Andrew King, Paul Vieira and Kevin Jeffrey will spearhead a nine-man team of local speedsters to compete in the first leg of the Caribbean Motor Racing Championships (CMRC) next month in Jamaica.
Guyana’s heavyweight champion, Kurt Bess and former CABOFE cruiserweight champion Shawn ‘The Sniper’ Cox will headline the 28th edition
With the budget debates over in the National Assembly, the Ministry of Sport now has the green light to continue its capital spending on a number of facilities.
After perhaps ending the career of former world rater, Howard ‘Battersea Bomber’ Eastman with a 12-round drubbing on Saturday last, Jamaican Sakima Mullings has ambitions of thrashing Guyana’s first world champion, Andrew ‘Six Head’ Lewis.
Despite suffering lopsided losses on last Saturday night’s ‘Fire Storm’ card, 42 year-old Howard ‘Battersea Bomber’ Eastman and 39-year-old Orlan ‘Pocket Rocket’ Rogers have not entertained the thought of permanently hanging their gloves up.
President of the Guyana Horse Racing Authority, Cecil Kennard said yesterday that the use of performance enhancing drugs in the Sport of Kings was cause for concern.
In a bruising, bloody battle between two of South America’s top featherweights, Clive ‘The Punisher’ Atwell defeated a game Raphael ‘El Potro’ Hernandez to earn the vacant WBC CABOFE title in an exciting action-packed fight at the Princess Hotel.
Last year’s most successful cyclist, Robin Persaud, powered to his second win of the season by outsprinting this year’s most outstanding cyclist, Alonzo Greaves to claim the second annual Powerade 50-mile road race at West Demerara yesterday.
Six amateur pugilists signed protocols to receive monthly stipends yesterday at the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) building.
After weighing in at 126 and 125 pounds respectively, Raphael ‘El Potro’ Hernandez and multiple division title holder, Clive ‘The Punisher’ Atwell stood with their faces inches apart, their mouths moving at a rapid-fire pace as they shouted at one another.
Local conglomerate Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) under its Gatorade and Pepsi brands will continue to replenish pugilists competing in the Guyana Boxing Association (GBA) Under 16 tournaments after renewing their sponsorship deal Wednesady.
If the verbal jabs thrown at yesterday’s press conference were the calm before the storm, tomorrow night’s mega card dubbed ‘Fire Storm’ will set the Princess Hotel ablaze.
More renowned for their 7s rugby exploits, the six-time NACRA 7s champions are hard at work preparing for the NACRA senior men’s 15s Caribbean championships home game against Barbados on May 18.
Newly elected president of the Guyana Football Federation (GFF), Christopher Matthias and his executives will have the full backing of the national men’s football team as long as strategic plans are in place to take the sport forward.
Guyana’s newest insurance company, Assuria, has once again flexed its corporate muscle in support of a discipline locally.
In its first major initiative after removing the ‘amateur’ tag from its name last year, the Guyana Boxing Association (GBA) in collaboration with the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) will commence rewarding selected elite boxers with stipends beginning in May.
Junior Sportsman of the Year, Paul DeNobrega along with fellow young national riders of the Coco’s Cycling Club, Raynauth Jeffrey, Raul Leal and Christopher Holder will wing out on Monday for a 30-day training and competing stint in Colombia.
President of the Caribbean Boxing Federation (CABOFE) and the Guyana Boxing Board of Control (GBBC), Peter Abdool, is of the opinion that the International Boxing Association’s (AIBA) new objectives will negatively affect the sport at both the amateur and professional levels.
Ever since the local speed aces drove away with their first and only Caribbean Motor Racing Championships (CMRC) overall title in 2010, they have not repeated that achievement.
The scheduled Hewley Robertson versus Elton ‘The Bully’ Dharry national bantamweight title fight on the April 20 mega card dubbed ‘Fire Storm’ is off due to a shoulder injury sustained by Robertson during training on Tuesday.
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