Andrew `Six Head’ Lewis was a knock out specialist with power in both hands. The southpaw welterweight drove fear into the hearts of opponents and by his 14th fight he had totalled 13 Knock Out victories.At that time, the only person to be spared his Knock Out wrath was South Korean born Han Kim, who earned a Technical Draw with the Guyanese `power house’ after being cut on the forehead during the second round.
With support from Compton Maycock Beckles, Lewis shifted camp from Guyana to the USA in 1997 just after he won the local welterweight title by stopping Terrence Alli.
While in the USA `Six Head’ would tackle American Gerald Reed on April 11, 1998. Reed was 36 and nine years older than Lewis at the time.
The fight, Lewis’ fifth in the USA, was held at the Township Auditorium in South Carolina and the referee was forced to halt it in the second round to hand victory to the Guyanese.
Seven fights later, the hard hitting southpaw earned Guyana its first world title. This was also achieved through the abbreviated route. Lewis won the World Boxing Association (WBA) welterweight title following a seventh round TKO of American James Page in February 2001.
He gained a unanimous Decision victory over Larry Marks in the first defence in April of the same year but lost the title to Ricardo Mayorga in March 2002. Lewis died on May 4, 2015. He was 44 years old.