Harris and O’Neil also world champions

IN yesterday’s edition of Chronicle Sport, in the opening paragraph of an article headlined ‘Atwell to face Gonzalez for WBC featherweight title next month’, Andrew ‘Sixhead’ Lewis and Wayne ‘Big Truck’ Brathwaite were named as Guyana’s only world champions.

That paragraph should have included ‘Vicious’ Vivian Harris who, on October 19, 2002, fought and defeated Diobelys Hurtado and captured the World Boxing Association (WBA) junior welterweight title.
Also missing was the country’s first female world champion, Gwendolyn ‘Stealth Bomber’ O’Neil, who won that accolade against American Kathy Rivers in a memorial bout at the National Park in March 2004 to claim the Woman’s International Boxing Association (WIBA) light heavyweight belt.
Chronicle Sport apologises to both Harris and O’Neil for the omission.

 

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