Notable Dates

Do you know that exactly 12 years ago, today, `Vicious’ Vivian Harris won Guyana’s third world boxing title with a vicious second round stoppage of Cuban Diosbelys Hurtado. On October 19, 2002 in Huston, Texas, Harris, aged 24, was crowned World Boxing Association junior welterweight champion when referee Laurence Cole waved it off with the second round only 43 seconds old. In victory, Harris became one of three fighters to defeat Hurtado. The legendary Pernell Whitaker needed 11 rounds to TKO the Cuban in January, 1997, while Russian Kostya Tszyu won by TKO in round five in November of the following year.  The PPP/C Government had presented Harris with a plot of land and five million dollars as reward for winning the title.

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