ON October 30, 1959 Caesar Barrow stopped Kid Chocolate II (Elmer Yearwood) in round two at the Wrightson Road Stadium in Port of Spain, Trinidad. The fight produced the 11 straight victories for Barrow. It was the second meeting between the skilful pugilist from Guyana and Kid Chocolate in two months of that year. Barrow had defeated Chocolate via a unanimous 10-round decision in August of the same year.
Barrow joined the professional ranks on April Fool’s Day of 1955 as a 21-year-old and took Joe Primo as his first scalp. The talented Barrow defeated Primo by points at the end of the four-round contest. Born on March 4, 1935, Barrow was a skilled lightweight boxer who stopped 46 percent of his opponents.
He won the vacant Guyana lightweight title on May 22, 1960 after knocking out Emmett `Six Seconds’ Smith in the fifth round at the GFC ground. In 1964 Barrow came up against another skilled fighter by the name of Lennox Beckles.
The latter was in a no-nonsense mood and won the contest via a first-round knockout. Barrow had 19 victories and seven defeats in a career that lasted 10 years..He lost six of his last seven fights and died in July 2005 at the age of 70.