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Layton Cup boxing meet
First trial for South Asian Games
By M. Shamil Amit
The Amateur Boxing Association of Sri Lanka will conduct its first major boxing meet for the year 2005 with the Layton Cup Boxing Meet due to be held from June 1 to 4 at the Sugathadasa Indoor Stadium commencing at 5.30 p.m. each day.

This meet will also be the first selection trials to pick a pool of 24 boxers for the forthcoming South Asian Games. The selected 24 boxers will be pruned down after the major boxing meet and trials that will follow thereafter before the final team is selected.

The ABA are looking forward to have a seed ranking for the selected boxers depending on their performances thus giving all boxers a fair chance of performing and to show their talent. The selection committee will also give the boxers every possible chance irrespective of winning or losing in selecting the potential boxers.

The eligible boxers participating in the Layton Cup are between 17 to 34 years, should be a winner of the Stubbs Shield, Junior Nationals or Winner or Runner up at the ABA organized Novices or Intermediate boxing meets.

A close tussle is expected with boxers from Slimline BC who are fielding top boxers, Army, Air Force, Navy, Police, Veyangoda BC, Vidyarathana BC Horana, Vidyartha BC Kandy, Nugegoda BC and Unichela BC fighting for honours. Events will be held in the under 48, 51, 54, 57, 60, 64, 69, 75, 81, 91 and over 91kgs. Last year Army BC's H.P. Jayantha Kumara who won in the Fly Weight category clinched the Layton Cup. The chief guest at the closing ceremony will be Kishu Gomes, CEO, Caltex Lubricants.

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