All favourites trough
All favourites won their first round bouts convincingly on the opening day of the 83rd Amateur Boxing Association men’s and women’s Clifford Cup meet which commenced at the Sugathadasa indoor stadium in Colombo yesterday. The meet was earlier scheduled to be worked off in December but was postponed due to last year’s Commonwealth Games and the Asian Games held in India and China respectively. This meet will be open only to the winners and the runners-up of novices, Intermediate, Stubbs Shield and winners of the Junior National Championships and all other boxers who have participated in any major tournaments conducted by the Amateur Boxing Association (ABA) of Sri Lanka. Read more:www.dailynews.lk/2011/01/04/spo03.asp