Kumara was named as the Best Male Boxer at the 83rd Layton Cup
Sri Lanka hosted its 83rd edition of the Layton Cup which is another traditional elite competition in the South Asian country where a new sensation, G.J.K.R.J. Kumara was named as the Best Male Boxer of the competition.
Sri Lanka hosted the ASBC Asian U22 & Youth Boxing Championships in Colombo this May and their boxers earned record number of medals in the event.
After the T.B. Jayah Boxing Championships for the male junior boxers and the Anurudda Shanaka Bandara Trophy for the female junior talents, the 83rd Layton’s Cup was their next national activity.
The Layton Cup is a prestigious competition in Sri Lanka which is one of the pioneer nations in Asia with their events which mostly launched in the 1920s and 1930s.
K.A.S.K. Abeygunawardana amazed in the 2024 Clifford Cup in Kandy and he proved fantastic performance in the smallest category in the Layton Cup. He met another champion in the final, Back to Fit Boxing Gym’s D.H. Tissaarachchy, but he knew his opponent well enough to keep the control from the first round until the last gong.
G.J.K.R.J. Kumara delivered the main sensation of the new edition of the Layton Cup, he shocked the ASBC Asian Elite Championships bronze medallist Umayanga Mihiran in the first round of their respective final bout. Mihiran, the historic Sri Lankan medallist in Chiang Mai, was stopped by the ringside doctor in the first round of the bantamweight final.
R.M.P.K.K. Rasnayaka used his strength to win his recent national competition and he remained on the top of the lightweight (60kg) after beating K.H. Navodya in a hectic final contest at the Layton Cup.
K.G. Padmasiri delivered one of the top performances at the Layton Cup, he destroyed R.A.D. Madushanka in the next final, winning the bout by large margin of differences, before P.M.L.L. Chandrabandara earned the title of the light middleweight.
The ASBC Asian U22 Championships silver medallist Yazmin Muhammad Usaith of St. Sylvester Boxing College’s is the youngest boxer in the Sri Lankan elite national pool of boxers but he is their most promising talent. The 21-year-old boxer shined once again in a national event and he stopped Y.S.P. Sudamma at the middleweight (75kg) final.
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