GWENDOLYN `The Stealth Bomber’ O’Neil’s return to the ring has been pushed back by almost two months but the ageing warrior believes that when the times comes, Sonya Lamonakis would be on her back inspecting the ceiling lights. O’Neil meets Lamonakis on May 30 in St Maarten and would be coming off a four-year hiatus. “I was waiting two years for this fight and I don’t mind waiting another two months. The result would still be the same,” O’Neil declared.
“I think that I have rested enough. I am coming back fresh on the scene. I am fresh as a rose for this fight and ready to take care of my business. I want to win by a wide margin and am thinking knockout.”
The fight was originally scheduled to be held on April 4 but was pushed back because of administrative issues.
Lamonakis who is known in boxing circles as `The Scholar’, was born in Greece and has lost once in 13 fights. She has fought twice in 2014 and had a similar number of bouts the previous year.
O’Neil, who will turn 46 in August, last fought in October 2011 when she defeated Pauline London. She won the Women’s International Boxing Association light heavyweight title in May 2004 after beating American Kathy Rivers at the National Park in Georgetown.
The victory allowed Guyana to have its first female world champion and created history for O’Neil who became the first Guyanese to win a world title on home soil.
At present the `Stealth Bomber’ resides in the USA and is being trained by former Commonwealth lightweight champion Lennox Blackmoore at the Gleason’s Gym.
“I know that I have a lot left in me so I am focusing on getting past this girl so that other doors can be opened to me,” said O’Neil who turned pro sixteen years ago.