Former world boxing champions, Trevor Berbick (left) and Mike McCallum (right), help to carry the casket of late boxing trainer, Fitzroy Guisseppi, at a memorial service at Holy Trinity Cathedral in Kingston yesterday. (Photo: Garfield Robinson)

Former World champions Michael McCallum, and Trevor Berbick; Commonwealth champion, Bunny Grant, and sport minister, Portia Simpson Miller, were among those who turned out to pay their last respects to the late Fitzroy Guisseppi at a memorial service at Holy Trinity Cathedral in Kingston yesterday.

Trinidad & Tobago-born Guisseppi, 56, a boxing trainer at the Stanley Couch Gym on Victoria Avenue in Kingston, collapsed at ringside during an inter-gym amateur fightcard in Portmore, St Catherine on February 28. He later died at the Spanish Town Hospital.

His body will be flown to the twin-island republic today for burial.

Tributes to "this quiet but effective man" were read by Anthony Osbourne and Mohammed Dawes, two boxers trained by Guisseppi; and Leroy Brown, president of the Jamaica Boxing Board of Control.

Jamaica Boxing Board official, Keith Brown, read the eulogy and gave a brief history of Guisseppi from his introduction the Jamaican boxing landscape as a top featherweight, to his final moments when he turned to training others in the sport he loved so dearly.

Father Kenneth Richards, administrator at the Holy Trinity Cathedral, was the officiating minister.

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