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Sunday, May 25, 2025

Guy carries T&T hopes at Worlds

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Walter Alibey
798 days ago
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National women’s boxer Tianna Guy.

National women’s boxer Tianna Guy.

Box­er Tian­na Guy will car­ry the hopes of T&T Sun­day at the In­ter­na­tion­al Box­ing As­so­ci­a­tion's (IBA) Women's World Box­ing Cham­pi­onships in New Del­hi, In­dia.

She will take on Pe­te­cio Nesthy of the Philip­pines in a feath­er­weight di­vi­sion con­test at 11.30 am (TT time).

Guy's en­counter comes on the heels of loss­es by An­gel George and Leeann Boodram in their re­spec­tive bouts on Fri­day. George went down to Ce­line Lee-Lo of New Zealand in an 81 kg bout 5-0, and Boodram al­so per­ished in her 75-81 kg fight with Fariza Sholtay of Kaza­khstan when the ref­er­ee had to stop the con­test cour­tesy of a bru­tal Sholtay at­tack.

Guy is con­vinced she does not get the best of draws at meets, as she faces the 2020 Olympic Games sil­ver medal­list. Coach Reynold Cox told Guardian Me­dia Sports on Sat­ur­day that his fight­er has been putting in the work which makes him feel con­fi­dent to­day.

She had been on prac­tice ex­hi­bi­tions in Puer­to Ri­co and the Unit­ed States re­cent­ly ahead of the Gold­en Belt Se­ries in Mo­roc­co where she went down in a con­tro­ver­sial fight 3-2 to Na­yara Ar­royo Ro­driguez of Spain. Soon af­ter at the In­de­pen­dence Cup in the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic from Feb­ru­ary 15-20, Guy was al­so beat­en. Cox ex­plained that he is not too wor­ried about his fight­er as she has been learn­ing a lot from her fights.

"We want to go on the counter-at­tack to­day (Sun­day). We have to try and be more ag­gres­sive and keep her op­po­nent on the back foot. From what I have seen, the Philip­pines' fight­er does not re­al­ly throw too many punch­es but she is a strong fight­er so I want to go hard on the at­tack," Cox said.

Guy is a bronze medal win­ner at the Gold­en Belt Se­ries in Mex­i­co last year. She is try­ing to earn a qual­i­fy­ing berth at the Olympic Games in France next year and for this to hap­pen, she has to be among the top 10 in her di­vi­sion in the Amer­i­c­as.

Cox said al­though a qual­i­fy­ing spot will be dif­fi­cult, he be­lieves his fight­er has the abil­i­ty to make it.


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