BOXING – THE stage is set for the second edition of the International Boxing Night, featuring fighters from Bahrain’s Royal Guard and the British Army.
The event will be held this Tuesday evening at the Infantry Training Centre in Catterick Garrison, North Yorkshire, England.
Supreme Council for Youth and Sport first deputy chairman, General Sports Authority chairman, and Bahrain Olympic Committee president Shaikh Khalid bin Hamad Al Khalifa is expected to attend the evening’s events.
Bahrain Boxing Federation head coach and technical manager Tony Davis told the GDN that the International Boxing Night will be a good test for Bahrain’s Royal Guard fighters against a squad of full-time British Army boxers – the same team Davis used to run over a decade ago.
Davis, a former England Boxing senior light heavyweight champion and ex-British military boxing coach who also served as the World Class Performance Coach on the GB Boxing Olympic programme, highlighted that the event will also continue to strengthen Bahraini-Anglo relations.
Last year, an eight-member Bahrain Royal Guard team competed in the inaugural edition of the event. Although they lost six of the eight bouts, the kingdom’s boxers impressed and Shaikh Khalid had described it as an “historic occasion”.
The International Boxing Night will also raise the excitement ahead of Royal Rumble III, one of the kingdom’s most popular charity boxing events taking place November 29 at Crowne Plaza Bahrain.
The black-tie affair will see boxers from Bahrain’s National Guard lace up their gloves to battle fighters from the Royal Engineers of the British Army.
The event will be taking place under the patronage of Shaikh Khalid and proceeds generated will be donated to the Royal Humanitarian Foundation (RHF).
More than BD60,000 was raised in last year’s edition of Royal Rumble.
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