For­mer spe­cial ad­vi­sor to the T&T Box­ing Board of Con­trol Buxo Potts has been ap­point­ed as a chair­man on the World Box­ing Coun­cil, and he is ex­cit­ed to re­vive box­ing in T&T and the re­gion.

At a press con­fer­ence held at Ali­cia's Guest House in St Ann's yes­ter­day, Potts said he was thank­ful for the op­por­tu­ni­ty.

"I want to thank god and every­one for help­ing me to pro­mote the sport of box­ing in this re­gion. The World Box­ing Coun­cil con­sid­ers me to be an in­te­gral part of box­ing and I have been ap­point­ed as a chair­man."

Potts has been ap­point­ed as the chair­man of the Cen­tral Amer­i­ca and Caribbean re­gion for the World Box­ing Coun­cil (WBC) de­vel­op­ment ini­tia­tive. Potts, whose tenure as the spe­cial ad­vi­sor to the T&T Box­ing Board of Con­trol end­ed last month, is hap­py that the WBC has de­cid­ed to give him the op­por­tu­ni­ty to de­vel­op box­ing in the re­gion.

He said this came about af­ter a meet­ing in Mex­i­co last year with the WBC, WBA (World Box­ing As­so­ci­a­tion) and IBF (In­ter­na­tion­al Box­ing Fed­er­a­tion).

The or­gan­i­sa­tions all met to de­cide on a way to deal with box­ing, which they con­sid­ered dy­ing.

In March T&T will host a three-day box­ing con­ven­tion to help de­vel­op the sport of box­ing.

Re­cent­ly re­tired box­er Floyd May­weath­er, box­ing pro­mot­er Don King, and for­mer box­ers Os­car De La Hoya, George Fore­man and Lennox Lewis are al­so ex­pect­ed to at­tend the con­ven­tion.

"There are 19,000 box­ers look­ing for an av­enue to box. We want to de­vel­op box­ing in all forms," Potts said.

The con­ven­tion will not on­ly be about box­ing, as it will in­clude nu­mer­ous ac­tiv­i­ties such as a so­cial de­vel­op­ment pro­gramme and an an­ti-bul­ly­ing pro­gramme.

Potts stat­ed that he hopes Gov­ern­ment Min­istries such as the Min­istry of Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment, Min­istry of Health, Min­istry of Se­cu­ri­ty, Min­istry of Tourism and the Min­istry of Sport and Youth Af­fairs jumps on board.

Potts, who plans to send pro­pos­als to the var­i­ous min­istries soon, hopes cor­po­rate spon­sors will get in­volved.

Fol­low­ing the con­ven­tion in March, T&T will host a World Cup Box­ing tour­na­ment af­ter the 2016 Rio Olympics.