Strong GDF win nine of 11 fights; six via stoppages

BOXERS from the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) proved too strong for their opposition when the second night action of the Guyana Boxing Association’s (GBA) Andrew Lewis National Novice Championships continued on Wednesday at the National Gymnasium, Mandela Avenue.

The soldiers won nine of their 11 contests with five stoppages and one other where the opposition abandoned the contest.
Winners for the Army whose contests were halted by the referee within the distance were; Delroy Murphy whose 52kg fight against Orin Rodrigues of the Republican Boxing Gym (Rep) was stopped at two minutes 22 seconds (2:22) of the second round; Delroy Garraway caused the referee to stop his 64kg contest against Quami Cumberbatch (Rep) at 2:30 of round two; Joel Peters whose 81kg division fight against his gym mate Joseph McKenzie was stopped by the referee at 1:42 of the third round; Aubrey Headley who also caused the referee to stop his 91kg division contest against his GDF gym mate Brian Tappin at 2:59 of round three and Anthanio Williams who forced the referee to call a halt to his over 91kg contest against Carryl Boxing Gym’s Ejad Allie at 2:57 in round one.

In the other over-91kg contest that night, Emerson Farley, also of GDF, was too strong for Oswald Yaw (Rep) and at the completion of the second round, Yaw realised that he had enough and abandoned the fight.
Other winners for the defending champions of the Champion Gym award (GDF) were: Kevin McKenzie who secured a points decision against his gym mate Darnel Jessimy in their 64kg contest, Toney Gillis who defeated Travis Stewart (Rep) in a 69kg bout and Okimey Baker who secured a walkover victory from Nikel Ames (Rep) in a 75kg bout.

Boxers from the Republican gym won three of the nine fights they were scheduled to contest. They were Trevor Williams with a walkover from Ishaun Khan of Harpy Eagles.
Khan, who knocked out GDF’s Jason Mickle at 2:26 of the third round during their 56kg bout on Tuesday night, failed to show up for the weigh-in on Wednesday morning for that night’s engagement and so was disqualified from further participation in the championships.

The other Republican winners were: Jamal Leitch who won by points over his gym mate Mark Chester in their 69kg contest and Germain Williams who beat Damieon Johnson on points in their 91kg contest.
The Vergenoegen Boxing Gym (VBG) won their only Elite contest on the night’s card as Kelvin Moore scored a points decision win over Clinton Clarke (GDF) in their 56kg contest.
There was one fight in the Youth category and this was won by Christopher Moore (VBG). He defeated Ryan Albert (Rep) in a 60kg contest.