Sancho named best Elite boxer, Allicock’s win highlights final night

OLYMPIAN Keevin Allicock’s victory over his Forgotten Youths Foundation (FYF) Gym mate Septon Barton, highlighted the final night of the Guyana Boxing Association (GBA) Senior Development Tournament at the National Gymnasium on Saturday.

When the tournament concluded at just after 11:20 hours, a fair size gathering saw Welterweight Champion Emmanuel Sancho from the Police Boxing Gym, being adjudged the best boxer of the second boxing card for the year staged by the GBA.

Police, under the coaching of active professional Boxer Dexter ‘The Kid’ Marques, won three Gold and two Silver Medals from the 10 bouts on Saturday night.
In the youth finals, Morlando Cameron beat his RHTJ (Rose Hall Town Jammers) Gym mate Raheem Peters in the 61-635 kg final while RHTJ’s Jahshawn Williamson beat Daniel Dehnert of BBG (Bailey’s Boxing Gym) in the 64-67 kg final.

In the Elites’ final, (Guyana Defence Force) GDF’s Ronaldo Sutton got the better Richard Subratee in the Mininumweight final while Jason Clarke beat fellow Police boxer Kevin Isaacs in the Bantamweight final.

The Jackman sisters (Abiola and Alesha) who participated in the Women’s World Championships in Delhi, India, matched gloves in an exhibition match.

The Lightweight clash between 24-year-old Keevin Allicock who attended the 2020 Olympics and fellow FYF pugilist Septon Barton had the fans in the stands on their feet.

Despite being dominated by Allicock, who won Gold Medals at Caribbean Champions in 2017 in St Lucia, 2018 at home and 2019 in Barbados, Barton put up a great fight and went the full distance of three rounds.

Barton seemed to have been saved by the bell in the final round when a brutal left hook wobbled him seconds before the entertaining contest ended.

In the opening round, the lightning-fast Allicock threw more punches but Barton fought back with some good shots of his own and was not afraid to go toe-to-toe with the skilful fighter from Albouystown.

The FYF pair traded shots but Allicock, who easily evaded most of them, was caught with a good left jab to his head before retaliating with a four-shot flurry.
The second round started with both boxers moving forward, but a left/right combination followed by an uppercut to the body stopped Barton in his tracks.

The fast-paced round continued and a powerful body shot sent Barton to the canvas. But he was back on his feet and seemed willing to exchange punches with Guyana’s most accomplished armature boxer presently.

A double left jab followed by a right hook resulted in Barton receiving a standing 8 count in the closing stages of the second stanza.

In the last round, Allicock searched for that knock-out punch as Barton rallied to the end.

In the other bouts, GDF’s Colin Lewis got a walkover from RHTJ’s Joel Williamson who could not leave Berbice due to a medical emergency with a family member.

Sancho again showed his excellent boxing skills and dominated Ronald Captain of GDF before the Welterweight bout was stopped in 1:36 seconds of the second round.

Clinton Captain of GDF defeated FYF’s Mark Crawford in a close encounter in the light Middleweight final before Police won their third Gold medal when Hullman Bovell beat Solider Quincy Boyce in their Cruiserweight final.

In the final bout of the night the towering Troy Glasgow of GDF abandoned his Super Heavyweight final against Winston Pompey Boxing Gym’s Emmanuel Pompey in the second round after being ahead on points.