Post by B. Singh on Mar 16, 2007 7:19:58 GMT -5
Trinidad Express
Friday, March 16th 2007
Salandy short by $300,000
Ian Prescott iprescott@trinidadexpress.com
www.trinidadexpress.com/index.pl/article_sports?id=161116762
Promoter Buxo Potts has disclosed he is short by some $300,000 in his promotion of Jizelle Salandy upcoming fight against American Yvonne Reis and has approached the Ministry of Gender Affairs and corporate bodies to assist with the purse.
Potts was responding after heavyweight boxer Kertson Manswell complained of not getting sufficent support with his career.
"We have asked the Ministry of Community Development, Culture and Gender Affairs to assist her with her purse. We have approached the First Citizens Sports Foundation to give some assistance with infrastructure...we hope they would give serious consideration to assistance, as she was recently awarded Sportswoman of the Year.
"We have also approached Carib Brewery, b-Mobile, Digicel all of corporate Trinidad, just to name a few, with the hope of getting favorable responses from them. So you see, we are pretty much in the same boat as Manswell.
"There is an old philosophy, seek and you shall find...knock and it shall be opened onto you and my mother always said to me, when one door closes many more would be opened. So, we just have to be working hard for the growth and development of boxing and know the harder you work the luckier you would get."
Friday, March 16th 2007
Salandy short by $300,000
Ian Prescott iprescott@trinidadexpress.com
www.trinidadexpress.com/index.pl/article_sports?id=161116762
Promoter Buxo Potts has disclosed he is short by some $300,000 in his promotion of Jizelle Salandy upcoming fight against American Yvonne Reis and has approached the Ministry of Gender Affairs and corporate bodies to assist with the purse.
Potts was responding after heavyweight boxer Kertson Manswell complained of not getting sufficent support with his career.
"We have asked the Ministry of Community Development, Culture and Gender Affairs to assist her with her purse. We have approached the First Citizens Sports Foundation to give some assistance with infrastructure...we hope they would give serious consideration to assistance, as she was recently awarded Sportswoman of the Year.
"We have also approached Carib Brewery, b-Mobile, Digicel all of corporate Trinidad, just to name a few, with the hope of getting favorable responses from them. So you see, we are pretty much in the same boat as Manswell.
"There is an old philosophy, seek and you shall find...knock and it shall be opened onto you and my mother always said to me, when one door closes many more would be opened. So, we just have to be working hard for the growth and development of boxing and know the harder you work the luckier you would get."