Guernsey’s Adam Baker and Jersey’s Tommy Frame stand toe-to-toe in one of the six inter-island matches. (Picture by Tom Tardif, 0723823)

AMALGAMATED Boxing Club head coach Graham Guilbert may have his knuckles rapped for billing six of Saturday’s big open show fights as Channel Islands championship contests.

‘I expect a letter from the ABA [Amateur Boxing Association] to say we’re not allowed to call it a championship,’ admitted Guilbert after the dust settled on another fantastically successful evening’s boxing at Beau Sejour.

‘But we can call it a CI competition,’ said the man who picked up the baton of a suggested revival of CI title fights after their absence for half a century.

The problem with official CI championships is that the Channel Islands has long lost its area status under the sport’s national umbrella body.

Guernsey and Jersey box under the jurisdiction of the Western Counties.

But Guilbert does not see it as a major problem.

He is pressing ahead with the project and looking into purchasing boxing belts to be presented to the best in the islands.

‘It would be nice to be made official, but we will have to wait and see the outcome of this.’