Boxu Potts Work Performance. Name: Boxu Potts D.O.B: 15/09/1949 Add: 13 Banyan Blvd., Malabar, Arima Tel: 758 – 4000, 330 - 4621 E-mail: boxupotts@yahoo WORK PERFORMANCE: Became a jockey in 1961at the age of 12. o Won approximately 100 races in an 11 year career o Champion jockey on 6 occasions Successful boxing promoter/manager/trainer/matchmaker in boxing for more than 40 year. List of boxing champions promoted/managed/trained/matchmade: o Tyrone Downes 1983 - WBC Fecabox 1987 - Commonwealth Title o Jimmy Joseph 1992 – WBC International Title o Wayne Braithwaite 1999 - WBB World Title 2000 - WBC International Title 2000 - NABF Title 2002 - WBC World Title o Jizelle Salandy 2000 - WIBA IBERO Title (breaking a world record for being the youngest human being to win a boxing title, at the tender age of fourteen years). o Lisa Brown 2001 - IWBF World Title (first female to win a world title for Trinidad and Tobago and the first female to win a world title in the history of the Caribbean) o First promoter in the world to promote five (5) world title bouts on one show in one night (2005): Iva Weston – NABC World Title; Lisa Brown - NABC World Title; Teresa Perozzi - NABC World Title; Pamela London – NABC World Title; Jizelle Salandy – NABC World Title. o Kevin Placide 2007 - WBE World Title & WBC Cabofe Title o Awarded promoter of the year 2007 by the WBC and WBA for successfully promoting female boxing in the Caribbean. o Denny Dalton 2007 - WBE World Title o Shawn Corbin 2008 - WBE World Title & WBC Cabofe Title o Jizelle Salandy 2006 - Unified WBC & WBA World Titles (breaking a world record for being the youngest boxer to unify the two most prestigious boxing titles in the (world) 2006 - WBC, WBA, WBE, IWBF, NABC, WIBA (breaking another world record for being the first person in the world to win six world titles in one fight) 2007 – Successfully defended all six world titles 2007 – Successfully defended all six world titles again 2008 – WBC, WBA, WBE, IWBF, WIBF, GBU, WIBA, UBC (breaking another record for winning eight world title in one fight) 2008 – WBC, WBA, IWBF, WIBF, GBU, WIBA, WPBF, UBC On January 4th 2009 Salandy passed away – WBC awarded her the highest award posthumously, Lifetime Achievement and Eternal Championship Awards, breaking another record, even in death, for being the first boxer in the world of boxing to ever be given an Eternal Championship Award. On August 31st 2009 she was awarded posthumously Trinidad and Tobago’s highest national award, the Order of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago Salandy’s cache of title belts would read: WBC, WBA, WBE, IWBF, WIBF, GBU, WIBA, UBC, WPBF, NABC, WIBA IBERO o Lisa Brown 2009 – WIBA World Title & WBC Cabofe Title. o Ria Ramnarine 2009 – WIBA Interim World Title & WBC Cabofe Title 2009 – WBA Interim Champion o Awarded Life Time Achievement by the WBC in the year 2009. Total amount of title belts won under my stewardship was thirty six (37). Was made Special Advisor to the Trinidad and Tobago Boxing Board of Control in 2010. Was awarded by the Trinidad and Tobago Amateur Boxing Association for complete development in boxing for the year 2011. Manager of the team which was able to qualify amateur boxer Carlos Suarez at the 2012 Olympic Qualifier Games in Brazil. ASPIRATION: Working through the communities to develop and aspire the youths of this nation through the sport of boxing and would continue to do so.
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