T&T’s Olympic box­ers Nigel Paul and Aaron Prince lead a list of eight lo­cal box­ers to be ranked among the top 40 box­ers in the world, ac­cord­ing to the In­ter­na­tion­al Box­ing As­so­ci­a­tion.

And with their rank, they al­so guid­ed the coun­try to the 40th rank in the world out of 120 na­tions.

Paul, a su­per heavy­weight box­er, who won the Na­tion­al Novice Cham­pi­onships and was sev­enth at the AM­BC Amer­i­can Con­fed­er­a­tion Box­ing Cham­pi­onships, is cur­rent­ly ranked fifth in his di­vi­sion which came due to his re­cent achieve­ments at in­ter­na­tion­al com­pe­ti­tions, in­clud­ing his bronze-medal achieve­ment at the In­ter­na­tion­al Box­ing Cham­pi­onships in Bel­grade, Ser­bia last year.

Prince, on the oth­er hand, qual­i­fied for the Olympic Games last year and gave a cred­itable per­for­mance in the red, white and black that earned him the 22nd rank in the mid­dleweight di­vi­sion (75 kg).

The oth­er box­ers prov­ing their worth on the in­ter­na­tion­al stage are An­drew Fer­min, who is 18th in the Light heavy­weight di­vi­sion (81 kg); Bless­ing Wal­drop (No 40 in the wel­ter­weight di­vi­sion—69kg); Don­nell Phillips (No 37 in the light­weight di­vi­sion—60 kg); An­tho­ny Shawn Joseph (No 22 in the feath­er­weight di­vi­sion —57kg); Tian­na Guy (No 23 in the Feath­er­weight di­vi­sion —57kg); and Faith Ram­nath, who is 13th ranked in the Min­i­mumweight—48 kg.

A re­lease from the T&T Box­ing As­so­ci­a­tion on Sun­day praised the box­ers for their achieve­ments, which it said were due to hard work and dis­ci­pline.

“Our prepa­ra­tion and pro­gram lead­ing up to the 2024 Olympics will con­tin­ue. For 2023, it’s the CAC (Cen­tral Amer­i­can and Caribbean) Games and Pan Amer­i­can Games (which is the Qual­i­fi­er for the Olympics). The TT­BA is ap­peal­ing to the pri­vate and cor­po­rate sec­tors to part­ner with us go­ing for­ward.

“Af­ter two-plus years of to­tal in­ac­tiv­i­ty, we are ready to be­gin host­ing events once more. On Fri­day 28th Oc­to­ber 2022 the Undis­put­ed Box­ing Gym of Wa­ter­loo Cara­pichi­ma will kick things off with a ten- bout card. It will be held at Jer­ry’s Sports Bar, Wa­ter­loo Road. It will fea­ture a mix of fe­males, Elite males and our School Boys/Girls ju­niors, who are proud­ly rep­re­sent­ed in Guyana.”