Faith Ram­nath, T&T's up­com­ing fe­male box­ing sen­sa­tion, will be­gin her cam­paign for pre­cious met­al at the In­ter­na­tion­al Box­ing As­so­ci­a­tion (IBA) Women's World Box­ing Cham­pi­onships in In­stan­bul, Turkey Tues­day at the Başakşe­hir Genç­lik ve Spor Tesis­leri.

Ram­nath will take on Aus­tralia's Madeleine Bowen in a Women's Min­i­mumweight con­test (45-48kg), need­ing to win to progress. She is one of on­ly two T&T box­ers at the cham­pi­onships, the oth­er be­ing Tian­na Guy, an­oth­er po­ten­tial fight­er who will en­ter the ring Wednes­day against Sito­ra Tur­dibeko­va of Uzbek­istan.

The T&T fight­ers have been train­ing re­li­gious­ly at an arranged camp, cour­tesy of the T&T Box­ing As­so­ci­a­tion, but with lit­tle to no in­ter­na­tion­al fights avail­able, coach/man­ag­er Reynold Cox is hop­ing for much-need­ed ex­pe­ri­ence ahead of the Com­mon­wealth Games from Ju­ly 28 to Au­gust 8 in Birm­ing­ham, Eng­land, as well as the Olympic Games which will take place in Paris, France in 2024.

"I am not look­ing for any gold medal or any­thing like that. I just want to see my fight­ers be­ing com­pet­i­tive on the in­ter­na­tion­al stage. For me, that will be enough to take back home.

"We have been in train­ing for a long time now but we have hard­ly been to any in­ter­na­tion­al com­pe­ti­tion. So ba­si­cal­ly, they are still novice fight­ers be­cause nei­ther of them has 20 fights to their name as yet. In fact, be­tween them, they have less than 30 fights, so if they can gain some ex­pe­ri­ence at these cham­pi­onships it will be good," Cox told Guardian Me­dia Sports on Mon­day.

Both fight­ers had short stints at the re­cent Amer­i­c­as Box­ing Con­fed­er­a­tion Cham­pi­onship in Guayaquil, Ecuador which took place from March 22 to April 2, where both were beat­en ear­ly in the tour­na­ment.

Cox be­lieves the women box­ers will al­so have an added op­por­tu­ni­ty for de­vel­op­ment as he, as coach, will al­so get the chance to work with oth­er box­ing teams while in Turkey.