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Sep 05, 2016 Sports
The second annual Lennox Blackmoore National Intermediate boxing competition will punch off this Friday at the National Gymnasium on Mandela Avenue. Seven gyms from around the country will attempt to unseat defending champion the Guyana Defence Force.
The intermediate is the second statutory competition on the annual calendar of the Guyana Amateur Boxing Association and precedes the National Open which is scheduled for early November.
Last year the GABA renamed the competition after Guyana’s first Commonwealth champion, Blackmoore, who had a professional record of 25 wins and five losses.
The dapper counter puncher won the British Commonwealth lightweight title on October 1, 1977. He won on points against Nigerian Jonathan Dele in Lagos, Nigeria.
The 66-year-old Blackmoore later challenged for the World Boxing Association (WBA) lightweight title against Aaron Pryor and World Boxing Council (WBC) FECARBOX light welterweight title against Antonio Cervantes in 1981.
Diwani Lampkin of the Forgotten Youth Foundation gym was adjudged Best Boxer of the last tournament after he secured a unanimous points-decision victory over GDF’s Jamal Brisport on the opening night in the lightweight division, then returned on two days later to defeat another soldier, Akeem Henry, in like manner.
The competition will run for three days and concludes on Sunday.
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