ABA Men's and Women's Intermediate Boxing Meet 2013

The Amateur Boxing Association of Sri Lanka has organised another competition for Sri Lankan pugilists to take part and get experience in the intermediate category. Male and Female boxers between the ages of 19-40 years will face elimination bouts commencing from 27th - 31st May 2013 at the Sugathadasa Indoor Stadium, Colombo, to bring to light Sri Lanka's future winners at the National Levels.

The meet will commence on 27th of May 2013 at 4.00 pm and from 28th- 30th of May at 3.00 pm. The finals will be held on 31st May 2013 from 3.00 pm. The meet will be conducted according to the AIBA rules which came in to effect from March 2013 and the scoring will be done under the new scoring system.

This meet is open to all men and women, novice boxers who are over 19 years and below 40 years. The boxers who were born between 1973- 1994 are eligible to participate in this meet. The boxers who have won at previous intermediate meets, open meets (Layton, Clifford and National) or any other competition or equivalent meet to any of the above are not eligible to take part in this meet. Fresher's will be allowed to take part in this tournament. Only the winners and runners up of this meet will be qualified to take part in the ABA Layton Cup, Clifford Cup and Nationals Championships.

Women four rounds of two minutes each

The men's rounds will be three minutes each and a bout will consist of three rounds. The women's bouts will consist of four rounds of two minutes each. Both genders will be given an interval of one minute between each round. All winners and 1st and 2nd Runners-ups will receive medals/certificates. The weigh-in and medical examinations will be held separately for men and women boxers between 8-10am on these days, whilst the draw for the bouts will be held on 27th of May at 11am at the Sugathadasa Indoor Stadium, Colombo.

At the last tournament P.P.D. Panagoda of ARMY RED BC and TLDM Abeywardane of M.A.S. Thuruliea BC become the Best Men and women Boxer men respectively whilst LM Suduwalikanda of Kotalawala Defense University and WND Fernando of Army became men and women best losers.

The competition between Air Force, Army, Navy, Police and Linea (MAS) boxers will be tough and robust. In the women's division, Air Force who won the most number of bouts, at the recently held Novices will face MAS Southern BC, Police and Navy boxers. This year's competition is expected to contain a high standard of boxing. A large contingent of boxers have sent applications from all the boxing clubs in the island. With the encouragement given to the sports in the country, we can proudly experience intense competition at the men's and women's intermediate boxing meet which is to be held from 27th to 31st May at the Sugathadasa indoor stadium, Colombo.

Mr Wazir Sourjah, a national champion and also the former secretary of the national boxing association of Sri Lanka for the year 2006, will grace the event with his presence as the chief guest.