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Fight finally on!!!…Professional boxers scheduled to leave for Jamaica engagements this month end
By Michael Benjamin
Months of intense negotiations between President of the Guyana Boxing Board of Control (GBBC), Peter Abdool and his Jamaican counterpart are expected to bear fruit when a team of local fighters leave Guyana to engage in combat with several Jamaican boxers on September 27 next.
Dexter Marques
However, the bout between Mullings and former World Boxing Association (WBA) welterweight champion, Andrew ‘Sixhead’ Lewis, seemed to have been cancelled as Lewis, who was initially scheduled to travel to Jamaica to sign the contract, will no longer comprise a part of the squad.
Earlier, local boxing authorities had intimated that Mullings was slated to compete in the World Boxing Council 50th anniversary tournament and a date could not have been fixed for the ‘Sixhead’ bout. Mullings had defeated former European Middleweight champion, Howard ‘Battersea Bomber’ Eastman last April at the Princes Hotel, Providence for the CABOFE welterweight title. He had registered a clear cut victory in that bout where the Guyanese had only won one round.
The Jamaican had then called out former World Boxing Association (WBA) welterweight champion, Andrew ‘Sixhead’ Lewis, to a showdown while saying that a victory over the former world champion would have done wonders for his resume. Lewis was scheduled to travel to Jamaica to sign the contract but it now seems as though that bout has been cancelled. Iwan Azore will now fight Mullings in a non title 10 rounds welterweight affair.
The other fighters expected to travel to the ‘Land of Reggae’ are Gladwin Dorway who tackles Jamaican, Donovan Campbell in an 8 rounds welterweight affair, while middleweight Derick Richmond will oppose another Jamaican, Anthony Osborne, also over 8 rounds. Three of the fights will be for World Boxing Council Caribbean Boxing
Sakima Mullings
Federation (WBCCABOFE) titles and local boxer, Dexter Marques will lace up his gloves against Jamaican, Rudolph Hedge over 12 rounds for the flyweight version, while Guyanese, Edmond DeClou, opposes Jamaican, Devon Mancrieffe, in defence of his CABOFE middleweight crown. Mark Austin will also get another opportunity to revamp his career when he opposes Jamaican, Tsetsi Davis, for the CABOFE middleweight crown.
Mr. Abdool had intimated that the contracts were expected in Guyana earlier this week and all of the boxers would have adhered to the formalities. In the meantime all of the pugilists are in training at their respective gyms.
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