Other Sports - BOXING
 

When: Saturday May 31, 8 PM
Where: Jus’ Cheers St. Ann’s Bay

4^th event in BK Boxing series to benefit up and coming gym

The 4^th event in the Burger King Boxing series ’08 will seek to raise funds for the Heavy Metal Iron Club – an up and coming gym situated in Windsor Heights over looking St. Ann’s Bay.
The gym has been in existence for over eight years but has been attempting to train boxers for the past two. So far some 16 young men have been involved in what has been a very informal boxing program in need of direction. The facility is run by popular and experienced football coach Porter Reid who is better known for his work with clubs such as Black Stars and Brazil from St. Ann in the National League, Mt. Salem in St. James and schoolboy sides York Castle High and Marcus Garvey Technical. Reid developed a liking for the discipline and hard work associated with boxing and of such exchanged his coaching boots for boxing gloves.
The Heavy Metal Iron Club boxers are chomping at the bit to learn the game in a formal way, the coach himself is yearning to taught in the ways of the sweet science.
A recent visit to the gym by Jamaica Boxing Board President William Tavares-Finson left him most impressed and he has pledged to offer as much support as is possible to the coach and boxers, this to include training manuals, sessions at the national gym in Kingston and of course equipment. The equipment in use at the gym are a few bought out of pocket by Reid.
The promoters of “Champions Stand Alone” have also pledged to assist with funds raised from the event , as also to give a couple of juniors from the gym some exposure on the card which will feature four bouts with boxers from the Cayman Islands against Jamaican fighters.
In a novelty addition the event will crown Jamaica’s “pound for pound” eating champion. It happens this Saturday May 31 at Jus’ Cheers in St. Ann’s Bay.