Notable Dates

Lightweight Lennox Beckles lost by a points decision at the end of ten rounds to Trinidadian Johnny DePeiza. The fight was held on November 27, 1964 in Trinidad. Beckles, now aged 72, entered the ring for the last time in May 1979. He lost that fight to compatriot Brian Muller.
One of Guyana’s best `ring sons’, Patrick Ford was taken the full 10 rounds by Trinidadian Harold Bernard on November 27, 1978. The fight produced Ford’s ninth consecutive victory and came one bout after the lanky Guyanese featherweight dropped a bomb on Panamanian Diego Alcala on September 9th of the same year. Ford died in the USA on November 13, 2011 at age 55.
On November 27, 1996 junior middleweight Adrian Dodson kept a clean professional record when he earned his 16th victory and retained the World Boxing Organisation Inter Continental title following a first round knockout of Trinidadian Anthony Joseph.
Although born in Guyana, Dodson fought all but one of his 31 pro bouts in the United Kingdom where he resided. He won the lightly regarded International Boxing Organisation (IBO) world title in March 2001 when he knocked out Paul Jones in the third round.

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