WAYNE Harris won the World Boxing Council (WBC) FECARBOX middleweight championship on December 15, 1990 with a points-decision victory over Trinidadian Anthony Brown. The fight was held in Trinidad and marked the second occasion that the two had met in the ring.
Harris had been on the receiving end when they first met five months earlier in the Twin Island Republic, losing on points after 10 rounds. Harris was a professional boxer for 22 years and ended his career in 2006 after fighting a total of 326 rounds. He secured 20 wins, 21 defeats and one drawn fight.
Howard Eastman, another Guyanese middleweight, won the vacant British title on December 15, 2006. Eastman, known as `The Battersea Bomber’, knocked out Richard Williams in the third round of the fight held at the York Hall in London.
Referee Victor Loughin counted Williams out at two minutes six seconds of the round. Four months later, Eastman added the Commonwealth title to his collection with a defeat (unanimous points) of Evans `African Warrior’ Ashira of Kenya.
Terrence, arguably the best lightweight produced by Guyana, suffered a defeat at the hands of Brandon Croly on December 15, 1993 at the Aladdin Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. Alli had been TKOed by WBC junior welterweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez seven months earlier.