Barbadian Leonard Harewood and St Lucian Arthur Lengelier provided the most entertainment at the Amateur Boxing Association of Barbados’ 35th anniversary card in honour of Kathy Harper-Hall Friday night at the Queen’s Park Steel Shed.
That contest was by far the most gripping and it got the crowd into the action as Lengelier and Harewood traded jabs and upper cuts.
Harewood managed to hold off the powerful Lengelier’s onslaught to save certain disaster and got in some good punches of his own.
These jabs were so good that he snatched victory from the jaws of defeat.
Before this bout was a good fight between Jabali Breedy and Ajayi Jones of Barbados.
The two youngsters also put on a show although it mostly involved Breedy on the attack and Jones trying to find a way out.
Breedy’s punches were fast and precise and were too quick for Jones. As a result, Breedy won the bout.
As the night drew to a close, the heavier boxers came out to put on a show and none was more impressive than the middleweight bout between Cabral Barriteau-Foster of Barbados and Mathew Charles of Trinidad and Tobago.
Foster was tactical in his approach and yet he was aggressive when he needed to be. It was this strategy that helped him defeat a game Charles who at times couldn’t handle the power Foster had in his punches.
The final bout was between Akeem Isadore of Barbados and Joel Stewart of Aruba in the heavyweight class which Isadore deservingly won.
There were wins for Ricardo Blackman, Kevin Lee, Karl Warner, Malcolm Benjamin, Jarel Nunes, Akeem Brawthwaite, Jamal Edmund, Ezra Lorde and Stevenson Lythcott.
I’Precious Lythcott won the only female bout of the night, defeating Faith Fields.
Earlier in the night, the action got going with a semi-final between light welterweights Michael Griffth of Barbados and Ozarra Findlay of St Vincent and the Grenadines.
After putting on a great showing, Griffth was able to best his rival on points.
