T&T's Olympic box­er Aaron Prince will at­tempt to re­bound from the dis­ap­point­ment of the Tokyo, Japan Olympics on Tues­day, when he takes on So­ma Mester of Hun­gary in a mid­dleweight con­test at the AI­BA World Box­ing Cham­pi­onships in Bel­grade, Ser­bia.

The bout comes a day af­ter his com­pa­tri­ot An­tho­ny Joseph re­ceived a walk-over win on Sun­day against Niv­en Chem­ben of Mau­ri­tius (MRI) in the Feath­er­weight di­vi­sion. The for­mat for the con­test is loose and out.

Yes­ter­day box­ing coach Reynold Cox said he is con­fi­dent that Prince should be able to han­dle his op­po­nent af­ter the dis­ap­point­ment of not do­ing as well as he ex­pect­ed to at the Olympics. "He should be ready, both phys­i­cal­ly and men­tal­ly.

I had the op­por­tu­ni­ty to see his op­po­nent fight, so we're go­ing to em­ploy a strat­e­gy to re­ceive a win. He is a strong fight­er, but he opens up a lot. So we're hop­ing to work on the coun­ter­at­tack," Cox told Guardian Me­dia Sports yes­ter­day.

He added: "Based on the fight he had at the Olympics, I think this is an eas­i­er fight, so he should be able to han­dle it. "

Prince made his de­but at the Tokyo Olympics this year in Ju­ly/Au­gust but lost to An­drej Cse­mez of Slo­va­kia in his first bout. He has since vowed to do bet­ter in com­ing tour­na­ments, all in a lead-up to the Olympic Games in France 2024.

Yes­ter­day Prince told Guardian Me­dia he was ex­pect­ing to win the fight at the Olympics but when he looked back at video clip­pings of the fight, he did not score as much as he should have in the first round, so he in­tends to fix that this time around. He not­ed his goal for the world cham­pi­onships is to progress as far as he could.

Mean­while, Nigel Paul, the 2016 Olympic qual­i­fi­er, will spring in­to ac­tion on Thurs­day against Nel­son Hysa of Al­ba­nia, and like Prince, Cox be­lieves it should be a con­test that the big Su­per Heavy­weight fight­er should be able to han­dle.

"He will be hop­ing to re­bound from the dis­ap­point­ment of now mak­ing it to the Olympics Games this year, as he just missed out on it," Cox ex­plained. Apart from the three fight­ers, T&T will al­so be rep­re­sent­ed by Don­nell Phillips, go­ing up against Tun­ga Oyum­baatar of Mon­go­lia to­mor­row (Wednes­day) in a 60kg con­test and Bless­ing Wal­drop, hav­ing a date with Ver­shaun Lee of the USA on Sat­ur­day.