NOTABLE DATES

On October 30, 1959 Guyanese lightweight Caesar Barrow stopped Kid Chocolate II (Elmer Yearwood) in round two at the Wrightson Road Stadium in Port of Spain, Trinidad.

The fight produced 11 straight victories for Barrow. It was the second meeting between the skilful Barrow and Kid Chocolate in two months of that year. The Guyanese had defeated him via a unanimous 10-round decision in August of the same year.
On October 30, 1982, 29-year-old Guyanese middleweight Reginald Ford was knocked out in one minute 48 seconds of the first round by Argentine Juan Domingo Roldan in Liguria, Italy.
Ford, the elder brother of former Commonwealth featherweight champion Patrick Ford, was coming off a fourth round TKO loss to Mike McCallum in April of the same year. A game competitor, the Guyanese lost six fights after the Roldan affair and ended his career in 1984.

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