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Saturday, May 24, 2025

Boxer Jorkhu beaten in Spain

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Walter Alibey
914 days ago
20221122
T&T boxer Ortega Jorkhu.

T&T boxer Ortega Jorkhu.

T&T box­er Or­te­ga Jorkhu was beat­en by the clos­est of mar­gins a week ago at the World Youth Cham­pi­onships in Al­i­cante, Spain.

The per­for­mance, in spite of the re­sult, was a pos­i­tive one for man­ag­er/coach Reynold Cox and T&T box­ing ac­cord­ing to Cox, as he said they are con­tin­u­ing their dri­ve to build a strong core of ju­nior fight­ers that will even­tu­al­ly take over from the elite box­ers.

Jorkhu, the son of for­mer box­er Wen­dell Jorkhu, in his first fight in the round of 32 against Tu­vsh­in­za­ya Ot­gonba­yar of Mon­go­lia, was off to a per­fect start by tak­ing the first round 4-1. How­ev­er, the Mon­go­lian re­bound­ed to take the sec­ond round by the same mar­gin 4-1 to set up a show­down in the fi­nal round.

In that round, Jorkhu gave all that he had but the of­fi­cials called it 3-2 in favour of Ot­gonba­yar. Cox said he was pleased with the per­for­mance, al­though his box­er lost the con­test.

"We have ob­served that T&T fight­ers have been los­ing by close calls at in­ter­na­tion­al com­pe­ti­tions and I think the time has come for us to, not on­ly build on strong starts but to take it to the next lev­el.

"I am hope­ful that with the re­cent ap­point­ment of the T&T Box­ing Board of Con­trol, it will help in get­ting more fights for box­ers that will en­hance their prepa­ra­tion. We have not had box­ing for more than two years, due to the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic as well as the ex­pi­ra­tion of the box­ing board, so now it will help the box­ers in get­ting fights," Cox ex­plained.

On­ly re­cent­ly, Cox said due to the fact that there was no box­ing board, cou­pled with the pan­dem­ic, the T&T Box­ing As­so­ci­a­tion was un­able to se­lect fight­ers to rep­re­sent the coun­try as they could not hold Na­tion­al Box­ing Cham­pi­onships.

He not­ed that Jorkhu's per­for­mance has earned him a spot on the na­tion­al team ahead of next year's Cen­tral Amer­i­can and Caribbean (CAC) Games, the Pan Amer­i­can Games and the Olympic Qual­i­fiers. In spite of Jorkhu's loss, he would have achieved the much-need­ed ex­pe­ri­ence that will take him ahead in the fu­ture.


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