Head coach of Jamaica’s four-member boxing team to this month’s Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Games, Felipe Sanchez, believes that the country’s fighters have nothing to fear when they compete in next week’s championships in El Salvador.

Jamaica’s four boxers who will be competing at the championships are featherweight Sanji Williams, lightweight Daniel Hylton, middleweight Tevoy Barrett and lightweight Jaden Eccleston.

The Jamaicans are scheduled to bow in action at the championships on June 22, where they will face the likes of Cuba, Panama, Colombia and Dominican Republic.

A confident Sanchez told the Jamaica Observer that the boxers selected to represent the country are best in their respective divisions in Jamaica and he is optimistic they can medal at the event.

“I am feeling very positive about the team because we have four strong competitors with ample experience, and they are very motivated and hungry to do well and make a name for themselves,” said Sanchez.

“I think that we all know that this is the steppingstone to our ultimate dream of reaching the Paris Olympic Games next year and so I am confident that they will all perform well at this championships in El Salvador,” he added.

Sanchez shared that the team’s preparation going into the championships has been intense, therefore, all four boxers are in tip-top shape and are raring to go.

“Our preparations have been amazing because we have been fortunate to have our camps at the JDF [Jamaica Defence Force] and so we have been preparing for about a month now in an intense camp with training twice a day,” he said.

“We have been doing a variety of work to ensure that our physical endurance is at an optimal level because we have been doing runs on the sand and on the beach and we have also been doing runs up to Newcastle as well and so overall, it has been an excellent camp,” Sanchez explained.

He noted that the Jamaicans’ opponents at the tournament are among the best fighters in the region and Latin America, therefore, the Jamaicans have to bring their A game if they are to be victorious.

“We are going to face some of the most difficult fighters in this hemisphere because we are going to be fighting 32 different countries and out of these countries the most difficult ones will be Cuba, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and Panama,” Sanchez said.

“These guys are amateur now, but when they become professional fighters, they are going to be world beaters. I think we are going to surprise everybody because they haven’t seen a strong Jamaican boxing team coming out in while, but we have been going to competitions with just two boxers but finally, we now have four boxers and they are at the sharpest point as they can be and they are definitely doing to surprise a lot of persons in El Salvador,” Sanchez said.