Led by Rio Olympic Games qual­i­fi­er Nigel Paul, T&T dom­i­nat­ed its Ba­hami­an op­po­nents when the Tues­day Night Box­ing at the Cas­tle se­ries con­tin­ued at the res­i­dence of for­mer West In­dies bats­man Bri­an Lara at La­dy Chan­cel­lor Hill, Port-of-Spain, on Tues­day night.

The ac­tion fol­lowed a three-leg se­ries which was held in Jan­u­ary where T&T Olympic hope­fuls were giv­en the plat­form to show­case their tal­ent. In Jan­u­ary box­ers matched their skills against box­ers from Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic, Guyana and St Lu­cia.

All eyes were on Paul, who booked a spot in the Olympics when he won sil­ver at the Amer­i­c­as Zone Box­ing Olympic Qual­i­fiers in Ar­genti­na in March. The su­per­heavy­weight did not dis­ap­point as he won by an unan­i­mous de­ci­sion over Kesh­no Ma­jor in the three-round con­test that brought the cur­tain down on the night's pro­ceed­ings.

Both fight­ers were watch­ful af­ter the open­ing bell with Ma­jor con­nect­ing with more of his punch­es. The taller Paul, who had at least six inch­es on Ma­jor re­mained watch­ful through­out the first round.

The crowd came alive in the sec­ond round as Paul came out ag­gres­sive, at­tempt­ing a flur­ry of punch­es. How­ev­er, the bout re­mained rel­a­tive­ly close as Ma­jor con­tin­ued to hold his cor­ner.

In the fi­nal round, Paul utilised his long reach to good ef­fect and earned sev­er­al points which swung the match in his favour. Ma­jor, like his fel­low coun­try­men be­fore, used fan­cy foot­work in the clos­ing mo­ments, maybe in an­tic­i­pa­tion of vic­to­ry. Un­for­tu­nate­ly for him the judges ruled in the favour of Paul.

Ear­li­er in the night, tal­ent­ed na­tion­al box­ers Aaron Prince and Michael Alexan­der out­classed their Ba­hami­an op­po­nents to record vic­to­ries by unan­i­mous de­ci­sion. Prince de­feat­ed Ty­rone Oliv­er in a wel­ter­weight con­test, while Alexan­der out­foxed Rudolph Reg­is in a light­weight en­counter.

Na­tion­al heavy­weight box­er Bren­don Den­nis de­feat­ed De­von Hamil­ton by unan­i­mous de­ci­sion, while Rasheed Williams was the lone win­ner for Ba­hamas when he got past Akiel Out­ram by tech­ni­cal knock­out in­jury in round two as T&T de­feat­ed Ba­hamas 4-1 in the se­ries.

Out­ram suf­fered an arm in­jury in the ju­nior wel­ter­weight match which forced him to with­draw.

Two lo­cal bouts took place be­fore the in­ter­na­tion­al bouts with Romel Leza­ma win­ning on points over Yuri Sorzano in a wel­ter­weight match up, while An­tho­ny Joseph earned a de­ci­sion over Mike In­niss in the ban­tamweight class.

The Tues­day Night Box­ing Se­ries is ex­pect­ed to con­tin­ue next Tues­day with na­tion­al box­ers com­ing up against op­po­nents from ei­ther Venezuela or USA.