ANDREW `Six Head’ Lewis chalked up his fifth first-round stoppage when he TKOed American Tony Saladin on January 30, 1998 at the Holiday Inn in Newark, New Jersey. It was the third consecutive KO for Lewis who improved his record to 12 victories from 13 fights.All of the victories came through the abbreviated form. In July 1997 Lewis dispatched Gabriel Perez in the first round and followed that up with the stopping of Leon Rouse in similar time before meeting Saladin.
A member of the Guyana team at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, Lewis, turned professional soon after. Motor racer and businessman Compton Maycock Beckles was instrumental in getting him to the USA where he excelled to the point of becoming Guyana’s first world champion.
That feat was achieved on February 17, 2001 when the heavy-handed Guyanese southpaw TKOed American James Page in the seventh round. Lewis made one successful defence before running into a wild swinging Nicaraguan named Ricardo Mayorga who snatched the World Boxing Association (WBA) welterweight title via a fifth-round TKO.
The beloved product of Albouystown passed away in May last year following a vehicular accident on the East Bank Demerara. He was 44 years old.