SUPER lightweight (junior welterweight) Dillon Carew drew with American Mike Di Benedetto on February 16, 2001. The eight-round fight was held at the DePaul Alumni Hall in Chicago, USA. Judge Dave Smith favoured Carew 78-74 while Noel Schiff had De Benedetto winning by a similar margin. The other judge, Bernard Hightower scored it 77-77. 

It was the third drawn fight for Carew, who represented Guyana at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona. In August 1993 Carew, then a lightweight, battled to a draw with Mark Richardson in an eight-round affair held in Georgetown, Guyana.
His fight with De Marcus Corley at the Convention Centre in Atlantic City in December 1998 was labelled a technical draw after three rounds. In a career that spanned 15 years Carew battled the likes of Ricky Hatton, Meldrick Taylor, Diosbelys Hurtado and Leonard Dorin to name a few.
He waved good bye to the fistic sport in June 2007 after suffering a second-round TKO at the hands of American middleweight Elvin Ayala and is now a respected trainer at the world-famous Gleason’s Gym in New York.