–GDF’s Kevin McKenzie is Best Elite Boxer, Keevin Allicock best Youth fighter

AFTER winning the National Novices Champion Gym title in June this year, boxers from the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) invaded the National Gymnasium on Sunday night and captured eight of nine Elite Class titles while ambushing an equal number of runners- up spots and was declared Champion Gym.
On the same night, Kevin McKenzie (GDF) was adjudged Best Boxer in the Elite Class, while Forgotten Youth Foundation’s (FYF) Keevin Allicock was voted Best Boxer in the Youth Category.
Of the eight Elite Class titles the GDF won, seven of them were all GDF finals, while one of their boxers won against a member of debutant Gym, Savanah Boxing Gym (SBG) of Lethem.
In the other bout they contested, they lost to a member of the Vergenoegen Boxing Gym, VBG).

The Army’s junior welterweight Kevin McKenzie was awarded the Best Elite Class Boxer after his demolition of Rose Hall Jammers’ Omali Adams via a 50 seconds round one stoppage on the second night of the tournament, followed by a one minute 35-second stoppage of SBG’s James Anderson in the final.
The soldiers started their assault from the first contest on the night’s card when Hakim Bostwick had his junior flyweight fight against Akimo Watts stopped by the referee in the first round.
GDF’s Delroy Fordyce then secured a split decision win over his gymmate, Delon Garraway, in their lightweight contest.
In the bantamweight division, the referee stopped the bout between GDF’s Clinton Clarke and VBG’s Kelvin Moore at two minutes, 56 seconds of round two in favour of the latter. Then followed Mckenzie who caused the referee to stop his contest against SBG’s James Anderson at one minute 35 seconds of the first round.
The other five bouts on the card were all GDF affairs and started with Emanuel Sancho abandoning his welterweight contest against Leon Semple, followed by Orlando Norton abandoning his middleweight fight against Okimey Bakker.

Daniel McPherson then secured a walk-over win from Renaldo Niles in a light heavyweight contest. Aubrey Headley then defeated Damieon Johnson in the heavyweight division and Antonio Williams defeated Emerson Farley in the super heavyweight contest.

In other results, Allicock forced the corner men of the Rose Hall Jammers Gym to throw in the towel during the opening seconds of the first round of his bantamweight contest against Andre Bess while Christopher Moore of VBG recorded a victory over Trevor Motielal (Young Achievers) after the referee refused to allow Motielal to continue after the first round. No reason was given for the sudden stoppage.