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‘Lightning’ Allicock to strike as flyweight at 2018 Commonwealth Games
Coach Sebert Blake (centre) with his charges Colin ‘Superman’ Lewis (left) and ‘Lightning’ Keevin Allicock with the Games mascot in Australia.
Caribbean bantamweight champion ‘Lightning’ Keevin Allicock will strike one division down when contesting the Commonwealth Games in the Gold Coast.
The intended strike was divulged by President of the Guyana Boxing Association Steve Ninvalle who claimed that Allicock and compatriot light welterweight Colin ‘Superman’ Lewis have been responding well to training since arriving in Australia early last week.
“Keevin will be competing as a flyweight. It’s the same division in which he won a silver medal at the Youth Commonwealth Games last year. I have been in constant contact with his coach Sebert Blake and from all indication things are unfolding as planned,” Ninvalle said yesterday.
The 19-year-old Allicock recently qualified as a bantamweight for the Central American and Caribbean Games (CAC) held last month in Mexico. In that heavier division the Guyanese sensation lost a hard-fought battle to Olympic gold medalist and world champion Robeisy Ramirez of Cuba.
Ninvalle explained that Allicock would be in his natural habitat while campaigning as a flyweight and that Team Guyana has been afforded a nutritionist who was expected to commence work yesterday. According to Ninvalle, competition in boxing is scheduled to punch off on Thursday when the talented Allicock and 13 other flyweights commence their quest for medals. The GBA president added that the Caribbean bantamweight champion will find it mathematically easier to qualify for a medal than Lewis who is also the king of his division in CARICOM.
“Keevin’s flyweight category has 14 boxers, while there are 24 fighters in Lewis’ light welterweight division. We expect both to do well as they have been provided the necessary tools to do so.” Lewis and Allicock will seek to break the 28-year-old Commonwealth Games jinx following Wesley Christmas’ 1990 bantamweight bronze medal in Auckland, New Zealand.
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