FEMALE, light heavyweight boxer, Gwendolyn `The Stealth Bomber’ O’Neil, had the fourth and final fight with Margaret `Chico’ Walcott on April 22, 2006. O’Neil won by TKO in round four. Of the four times the two female gladiators met in the ring O’Neil won thrice while the other ended in a draw. In May 2003 Walcott was also TKOed in round four while the draw occurred in August 2001. The judges gave O’Neil the nod in the first encounter staged in December 1999. An ageing warrior, O’Neil will turn 46 in August. She last fought in October 2011. That contest ended in victory as she defeated Pauline London.
In May 2004 `The Stealth Bomber’ snatched the Women’s International Boxing Association light heavyweight title after beating American Kathy Rivers at the National Park in Georgetown. The win afforded Guyana its first female world champion and earned O’Neil the title as 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. She is scheduled to make a comeback in St Maarten on May 30 against Sonya Lamonakis.