Olympian Nigel Paul and Or­te­ga Jokhu will go in­to ac­tion Thurs­day, car­ry­ing the hopes of coun­try T&T at the XXXVII Fe­liks Stamm In­ter­na­tion­al Box­ing Tour­na­ment in War­saw, Poland.

This af­ter both Aaron Prince and Je­re­mi­ah Thomas were beat­en on Wednes­day in their re­spec­tive bouts.

In yes­ter­day’s quar­ter­fi­nals of the 71kg con­test, Prince, who ad­vanced to the quar­ter­fi­nals cour­tesy of a 5-0 tri­umph over home­town favourite Alek­san­dr Trofim­cuk, went down to Fin­land’s Tiu Dorulet, there­by mak­ing his ex­it from the tour­na­ment.

Thomas, in his 80kg fight, gave a bat­tling per­for­mance but had to set­tle for a 4-1 loss to Rafal Per­czyn­s­ki of Poland in his quar­ter­fi­nal con­test.

The fights, be­ing used as prepa­ra­tion for the Cen­tral Amer­i­can and Caribbean (CAC) Games as well as the Pan Amer­i­can Games lat­er this year, ap­pear to be well on course based on the de­vel­op­ment of the T&T fight­ers, coach Reynold Cox said on Mon­day.

Apart from Prince and Thomas, oth­er T&T box­ers—Tian­na Guy, An­tho­ny Joseph, Nick­el Joseph and Don­nell Phillip—were all beat­en ear­li­er this week.

Paul, the T&T su­per heavy­weight fight­er who won a his­toric bronze medal at the 2021 In­ter­na­tion­al Box­ing Cham­pi­onships in Bel­grade, Ser­bia, got a bye straight to the semi­fi­nal, where he will take on De­li­cious Orie of Eng­land in bout num­ber 117 of the cham­pi­onships.

Like Paul, Orie al­so earned a bye to the semi­fi­nals due to the num­ber of fight­ers in the di­vi­sion.

Jokhu, in his 51kg di­vi­sion, al­so got a bye to the round of four, where he will come up against Pol­ish fight­er Jakub Slomin­s­ki. The lat­ter, un­like Or­te­ga, had to beat Ab­du­ma­jid Man­napov of Uzbek­istan for the right to face the T&T box­er.