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Mar 08, 2016 Sports
Exhibition in bouts set for Linden
Linden resident Berbice-born Edmond Nelson is an amputee with a vision of doing something he
claims has never been done before.
The 58-year-old describes himself as an inventor and a trail blazer whose dream is to see One-Foot Boxing become an International Sport.
According to Nelson, who lost his left leg two years ago due to an illness which prevents blood from reaching his foot, he was a talented Bantamweight Boxer at the Amateur level in early 1970s and one day he woke up with the idea of him continuing his Boxing career despite the lack of a leg.
“I want to show people that not having both legs should not prevent someone from living their dreams. That why I invented the Sport of One-Foot Boxing which is first ever such sport in the world,” Nelson explained.
“I am the President and Coach of the One Foot Boxing Association and I have a meeting with Steve Ninvalle (President of the Guyana Boxing Association) tomorrow (today) to discus us being affiliated to GABA,” Nelson continued.
Nelson informed that the Association was formed since March 2015 and comprises six members, including himself who are all one- foot Boxers. The Boxers would train for three hours per day from Monday to Saturday but nobody knew because, according to him, he did not want anyone to steal the idea.
A year later, Nelson is in the process of registering his Association as a sports body and says while all of the one-legged fighters live in the Mining Town, they train both in Linden and in the City.
“For the last week or so we have been using the Andrew ‘Six Heads’ Lewis Gym in Albouystown to train. One-Foot Boxing is a special art and only a one foot person can Coach the Boxers so I will doing that (Coaching) since I have been doing shadow Boxing with one foot for close to two years now,” Nelson disclosed.
The Association will be officially launched on Easter Saturday in Linden where exhibition bouts are scheduled to be held.
Nelson is confident that once this art form is published he will get calls from promoters in places like to USA to talk to him about making One Foot Boxing an International sport. (Sean Devers)
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