GAIRY St Clair lost by unanimous decision to Australian William Kickett on June 24, 2008 in Melbourne.At the end of the 10-round contest Kickett remained undefeated and took his record to 11-0. The fight was one of the preliminaries on a card that featured former world champion Azumah `The Professor’ Nelson versus Jeff Fenech.
Both St Clair (33) and Kickett (21) weighed in at 129 and one-quarter pounds. On July 29, 2006 St Clair joined the prestigious group that included Andrew `Six Head’ Lewis, Wayne `Big Truck’ Braithwaite and `Vicious’ Vivian Harris.
The four are the only male Guyanese to have won world titles. St Clair known as `Superman’ defeated South African Cassius Baloyi to snatch both the International Boxing Federation (IBF) and International Boxing Organisation (IBO) super featherweight titles. St Clair turned 40 in February and is still active in his adopted country of Australia.
He won his last four fights and built a record of 46 victories, 12 defeats and two draws. In the early 90s St Clair was part of a team of boxers selected by promoter Keith Bazilio to train for months under the eyes of Maurice `Bizzy’ Boyce on the Linden/Soesdyke Highway.
Other members of the team were Glen Ford, Eion Bancroft, Andre Purlette, Vincent Howard and Andrew Lewis.