Howard Walker, Staff Reporter
IT'S D-DAY for Leroy Brown, president of the Jamaica Boxing Board of Control (JBBC), as he tries to fend off the challenge of William Tavares-Finson for the top post at tonight's annual general meeting (AGM) to be held at the Sports Development Foundation starting at 6:00 p.m.
Brown, an international boxing judge who took office in April 2003, is confident of retaining his position in a sport many consider to be dying, and he has welcomed the challenge of Tavares-Finson, someone he had asked to help revive the sport.
"I have been reaching out to various people to come back and help the sport and he was one of those persons. But he is challenging and I don't have any problem with a challenge," Brown told The Gleaner in an earlier interview.
"I think I did a good job and the members asked me to run again as president," Brown added.
GATHERING RESOURCES
But ironically, Tavares-Finson, a former director and the brother of Tom Tavares-Finson the lawyer and politician thinks his input would be better suited as president.
"I see myself as a part of a team and we have the ability to garner the much-needed resources which I think the sport has really been lacking," said Tavares-Finson, who has been involved in boxing for 20 years.
PITIFUL RESULTS
Tavares-Finson, who is also honorary consul of Nicaragua to Jamaica, thinks the sport has stagnated and now is the ideal time to offer his services.
"I am not a person who is antagonistic to groups of individuals. I would not say the board has done a pitiful job. It just has to be taken to another level and I think that my team is better suited to carry it forward," he said.
At the AGM, there will be 45 paid up members eligible to vote and the contenders just need a majority to be president
