Saturday Night is Fight Night Inside Civic

Saturday night is fight night inside the Belize City Civic Center as Belizean boxer Eduardo ‘Mecanico” Esquivel is set to take on Mexican Albino “Cobra” Meza. The championship match is being sanctioned by the World Boxing Council. Several fights are scheduled for the night, leading up to the championship bout. Boxers from five different countries will be competing on the night of the event. And to top it all off, Boxing Hall of Fame Referee, Joe Cortez will be in attendance. He is in Belize to work alongside the Belize Boxing Development Council to uplift the discipline here in the country. We spoke with Assad Martinez, founder of the Belize Boxing Development Council.

 

Assad Martinez, Founder, Belize Boxing Development Council

“This is what I would call the threshold event for the nation. Of course, we have the boxing hall of fame referee Mr. Joe Cotez that came from Las Vegas to help us build our intangible capacities for the sports. Those who have been coming to see our fights know what they are going to get. But this particular one is going to bring even more because we have two fighters from the U.S. Then we have this guy Albino Cobra who is fighting the Mechanico. He is very hard. He is very consistent, so this is a very difficult fight for us. But we do what we do to set the proper paradigm for our athletes to succeed, in particular in boxing. We have had boxing in the past, whether you want to go from Simon Lucas to Lightburn, to Dakers but we never set the proper intangible paradigm for the fighters to progress and join the global talent pool and make economics from it. Boxing is an economic sport and as Belizeans we have the physical attribute and the physical attribute and the intellectual temperament to succeed in this sport.”