Williamson’s Olympic dreams dashed as he loses to Colin.

GUYANA’S Joel Williamson traded blows with Mauritius’ Louis Richarno Colin yesterday but, when the dust had settled, it was the three- time Olympian Colin who emerged with a unanimous points decision to end Williamson’s dreams of becoming an Olympian in the Parris Olympics which set to start on July 24.
Williamson who hails from Berbice, fighting in the 63.5kg class, enjoyed a few brief moments in the fight but the more experienced was always in control of a contest he was overwhelmingly favoured to win easily.

Williamson now joins fellow Guyanese, GDF’s Desmond Amsterdam, who suffered a unanimous points defeat against Christian Javier Pinales of the Dominican Republic on Saturday.
With both pugilists failing to qualify for Parris, Super Heavyweight Emmanuel Pompey will hope to join Keevin Allicock with a win in his first fight when he comes up against Georgia Kushitashvilli today.

Pompey is coming off a successful outing in the GBA’s Developmental Boxing tournament last March at the National Gymnasium in Guyana when he beat Suriname’s Leandro Dongo in what was the fight of the night.
But this contest is a different level since his 28-year-old Russian opponent is six feet four inches tall and has won both of his fights since turning Pro in February 2022.
Allicock who won is only Pro fight, fought in the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo and moved one step closer to participating in his second Olympics after he won his first bout in the round of 32. He will enter the Ring tomorrow for his next fight.