KINGSTON, Jamaica — The bell has rung, the gloves are laced, and the highlight is again. After a one-year hiatus, the high-energy Wray & Nephew Battle Evening Sequence has formally returned, promising an exhilarating line-up of boxing motion on June 28 at Ferdie Neita Park in Portmore, St. Catherine.
Tuesday’s electrifying launch occasion at Usain Bolt’s Tracks and Data restaurant in Kingston reaffirmed the highly effective partnership between the Jamaica Boxing Affiliation (JBA) and iconic spirits model Wray & Nephew—a collaboration geared toward elevating each neighborhood engagement and Jamaica’s boxing legacy.
A card filled with firepower
The 2025 season opener boasts a spectacular struggle card. Two explosive skilled fights headline the night, preceded by eight riveting novice bouts throughout 5 weight courses: Welterweight, Mild-welterweight, Middleweight, Mild-heavyweight, and Cruiserweight.
In a nod to regional inclusion and gender variety, the line-up additionally incorporates a feminine bout, highlighting a competitor from the Cayman Islands.
Wray & Nephew’s knockout dedication
Kerry Ann Bryan, Model Supervisor at Wray & Nephew, may barely include her pleasure at Tuesday’s launch.
“We’re simply excited to be a part of yet one more particular season of Wray and Nephew Battle Nights,” she declared. “We’re additionally simply excited to be part of the greatness and simply to see the event of the boxers, to see them come out and struggle.”
She warmly prolonged an open invitation to followers, encouraging them to hitch the festivities: “We’re inviting followers to come back out and luxuriate in some Wray and Nephew specials, carry associates and colleagues, and simply come out and have a good time.”
Past leisure, Bryan emphasised the corporate’s broader mission: “We consider in neighborhood involvement and improvement of gamers. We sponsor soccer, and boxing is one other sport that we see doing very well in Jamaica. With the aim of reaching the 2028 Olympics, we’re on that practice with the Jamaica Boxing Board.”
A flagship platform for Jamaica’s greatest
JBA President Stephen ‘Bomber’ Jones echoed Bryan’s sentiments, heralding the occasion as a pinnacle within the nationwide boxing calendar.
“Battle Evening is again and we’re excited as a result of what it represents is the end result of the month-to-month exhibits we’ve been having. That is the place we separate the cream of the crop.”
Jones defined that the sequence not solely spotlights elite fighters but in addition enhances the JBA’s broader Futures Programme geared toward nurturing rising expertise:
“What we wish to do is carry the perfect of every class to the general public and the communities that we go into.”
Curated fight: The matchmaker’s imaginative and prescient
Nationwide boxing coach Felipe Sanchez, architect of the occasion’s matchups, assured a night of high-octane motion.
“As common, you may anticipate an action-packed struggle card. It’s the end result of all of the fights the Jamaica Boxing Board has been placing on. Now, we’ve pitted the perfect of the perfect from throughout the island.”
Sanchez credited Wray & Nephew for bringing taste and vitality to the occasion:
“They’re actually the spirit of the game. Something they’re concerned in has lots of vibes. And boxing in Jamaica stays distinctive—with the dancing women in between rounds and DJs conserving the gang hyped.”
Iron man vs The technician: A conflict of kinds
One of many skilled showdowns to observe is between Juzier “Iron Man” Heron and Dwayne Lawrence of the Sanchez Promotion Gymnasium.
Heron approached the matchup with cool confidence and strategic intent:
“Actually, I’m simply going to be taking the struggle because it comes. If I understand he’s a southpaw, I’ll struggle him accordingly. If it’s a man who gases out shortly, I’ll end him shortly. It’s not difficult.”
And when requested whether or not he believed he may defeat his opponent?
“A hundred percent.”
Lawrence, against this, supplied a extra methodical method:
“I come out with a sport plan to outbox Juzier. I simply wanna field him on the surface, preserve him at a distance, do the physique work once I attain him, after which come again out and regroup.”
He added: “I don’t wanna take it too fast. I wanna take my time, outbox him, rating my factors, and if a knockout comes, I’ll take it.”
Wray & Nephew Battle Evening represents way over simply pugilistic spectacle—it’s a crucible for expertise, a celebration of tradition, and an announcement of ambition. With the eyes of the native sporting world turning to Ferdie Neita Park on June 28, Jamaica’s fighters, followers, and sponsors are able to show that boxing’s future is burning vivid within the Caribbean.