CLIVE `The Punisher’ Atwell will replace Andrew `Six Head’ Lewis in a WBC CABOFE-sanctioned, Guyana Boxing Board of Control (GBBC)-organised junior welterweight fight on February 21 at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

According to GBBC’s match-maker Eion Jardine, the card is still on but Lewis has been replaced by Atwell due to an injury Lewis suffered while sparring with a French Guiana boxer on Sunday, in preparation for his ring date against Jamaican Sakima Mullings.
Jardine told Chronicle Sport that Atwell, having learnt of Lewis’ tragedy, immediately accepted the offer to replace Lewis. The fight will still be a title fight over 12 rounds.
According to Jardine, the former World Boxing Association (WBA) suffered a hairline fracture to his collarbone and this was confirmed by GBBC’s doctor Dr Max Hanoman who said Lewis will be unable to box for another two months or so.
Mullings with a 17 (12)-1-0 record is Jamaica’s junior welterweight champion.
Mullings had stated openly, according to a close source, that he wants to destroy Lewis in his own backyard.
Lewis’ manager and former amateur champion, Keith Bazilio, does not want to risk his charge taking the ring with Mullings, who became the WBC’s CABOFE welterweight champion in 2013 when he stopped Guyana and former European champion Howard Eastman at the CASH.
The hard-hitting, explosive, dominant and destructive Mullings, also defeated Derick Richmond in 2013, stopping the Guyanese in the second round at the CASH, then going on to win the 2014 version of the Contenders Series which is an annual event on Jamaica’s boxing calendar.
The undercard of the 36-round card will have as its main supporting bout, a female super middleweight contest between United States’ Loretta Rivas and Guyana’s own, Sharon Warde over six rounds.
The night’s opening fight will see two debutants in Guyana’s Travis Fraser and Barbados’ Charwin Estwick battle in a junior middleweight contest over four rounds.
A six-round catch weight contest is also on the cards involving Dexter Marques and Quincy Gomes matching gloves over eight rounds, while Edmond DeClou and Derick Richmond will do battle over eight rounds in a middleweight contest.

(By Michael DaSilva)