Imran Habibulla, Darius Gore and Kevin Hooper of Team Point Blank Boxing participated in the 2008 Ray McGibbons Gloves in St. Catherines over the weekend. After what tuned into the longest day single day of competition we had ever experienced, with our own 6am start from Aurora and over 100 bouts during the course of the day our athletes gave it their all in their debut boxing matches.

Imran lost the +91kg Senior Novice semi-finals in third round with an RSCO (Outscore) with his opponent moving on to the finals non Sunday. Darius retired from bout after the second round of the 69kg Junior Novice division finals, when we felt that his exhaustion after giving it his all in the first two rounds would make it difficult to proceed into the third round safely. Kevin Hooper faced a tough bout in the +91kg Masters Novice Division finals against the tournaments largest boxer who clearly outweighed him and had very aggressive boxing style. He opponent took the win an RSCO (Outscore) in the third round.

Despite retuning without a win this weekend we are very proud of all their performances this past weekend, and anticipate seeing some great future performances coming from each of these athletes. Each of these athletes will be competing in our upcoming club Boxing show right here are Point Blank ion June 7th.

Tournament Videos on YouTube

Imran Habibulla ‘s bout – Round 1, Round 2, Round 3.

Darius Gore’s bout Round 1, Round 2.