Amateur boxing misses former global stars Knowles, Johnson

Thu, Aug 8th 2019, 08:35 AM

Take your pick, opting for Tureano Johnson or Nathaniel Knowles. An argument could be made for either of them being the best amateur boxer in Bahamian history.

Sitting in the Miguel Grau Coliseum during the two nights of boxing finals at the 18th Pan American Games in Lima, Peru, I admit reminiscing and getting caught up in the nostalgia of the heights Bahamian amateur boxing had, in their eras, climbed.

I was in the corner with Bert Perry, when Knowles and Gary Davis made history by being the first Bahamian Olympic boxers; when Knowles added to that historic aspect by winning at that high level; and later when Knowles won the first ever boxing medal (middleweight silver) for The Bahamas, in 1974, at the Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

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