OLYMPIAN Keevin Allicock is the last of Guyana’s boxing quartet still standing and presently participating in the final Olympic Qualifiers in Thailand after Emmanuel Pompey lost to Russian
Georgia Kushitashvilli yesterday.
Pompey, on the back of a successful outing when he beat Suriname’s Leandro Dongo in the GBA’s Developmental Boxing tournament last March, was no match for Kushitashvilli in their Super Heavyweight battle yesterday.

The 28-year-old Russian used his superior reach advantage and landed the harder shots, as Pompey who fights out of the Sophia-based Pompey Boxing Gym in Guyana tried the counter punch.
But it was Kushitashvilli, who has won both of his fights since turning pro in February 2022, who hurt Pompey causing the referee to stop the contest.
Berbice’s Joel Williamson, fighting in the 63.5kg class lost to three-time Olympian Mauritius' Louis Richarno Colin.

Williamson and Pompey joined fellow Guyanese, GDF’s Desmond Amsterdam, who suffered a unanimous defeat against Christian Javier Pinales of the Dominican Republic on Saturday, with first-round losses, squashing dreams of becoming an Olympian in the Paris Olympics which starts on July 24 in France.
Allicock, who won his only pro fight and fought in the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo moved one step closer to participating in his second Olympics after winning his first bout in the round of 32.
He will enter the ing against Batuhan Ciftci today in his second fight.