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Turkey bound Theresa London impresses in warm up bout

Mar 27, 2011 Sports

Theresa London raised the hopes of her fans and endorsed her selection to represent this country at the upcoming Junior Female Amateur Boxing championships in Turkey with a clinical display that earned her a close but well deserved victory over Amanda Charles when the two boxers squared off in the ProAm boxing cards Friday evening last.
Fighting in the lightweight division, the two boxers engaged in three rounds of non stop punching that had the small crowd on its feet for the duration. From the time the first bell rang London shifted into gear. She danced around the shorter Charles flicking a steady jab and straight right. Charles, apparently a late fighter, plodded behind London and unleashed an occasional bomb. However, she found the dancing, squirming London an elusive target and most of those punches were rendered ineffective. The shorter Charles clearly lost the first round.
Representing the Harpy Eagles Boxing gym, Charles found a rhythm in the second round but London, who by now had worked up a good sweat continued to dance away while employing a perfect right cross mixed with an occasional body attack.
London’s work ethic was a joy to behold and despite her relatively short period in the fistic sport, give the impression that she is a seasoned contender. Charles did give a good account of herself but was, unfortunately, up against a determined classy boxer. With careful handling though, Charles is sure to blossom into a good boxer. However, last Friday night, despite employing superb techniques and skillful adaptations, she just could not get the full measure of London and dropped a close 2-1 decision.
Junior flyweight, Carol Ann Bess, the other boxer selected to represent Guyana at the Turkey Games was defeated by Charles’ gym mate, Ansilla Norville and an injury to her shoulder may very well rule her out of the impending championships. The petite boxer was obviously experiencing severe pains from the shoulder injury from as early as the opening seconds of the first round. Her efforts to ignore the pains saw her exchanging as much as she took but while her courage must be complimented, it was obvious that she would have been unable to complete the bout. She was subjected to two mandatory eight counts shortly before the referee decided to call a halt to the proceedings. The time was 1:48secs of the second round.
Republican, Delroy Nero was also in winner’s row and dished out a thrashing to Guyana Defence Force (GDF) junior/welterweight contender, Romano Clark. The soldier has no one but himself to blame for the loss as, despite enjoying a height advantage, chose to engage in a slugging contest with his opponent. Nero took advantage of his opponent’s shortcoming and capitalized with some close ranged punches to Clarke’s head and midriff to influence a 2-1 verdict from the judges.
Republican, Nankumar Singh and Mark George of the Harpy Eagles engaged in three delightful rounds and the crowd thoroughly enjoyed it judging from the applause at the end of the contest. The boxers will now rest for a few days before returning to the gym in anticipation of a spot on April’s ProAm card scheduled for the 29th of that month.
As is customary, the amateur pugilists each received a large hamper from furniture giants, Courts.

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