..Guyanese boxers dominate other bouts on the card
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, (CMC) – Trinidad and Tobago’s Kirt Sinnette avenged the only loss on his pro log Saturday night when he beat Bahamian Jermaine Mackey on an 11th round technical knockout (TKO) for the FedeLatin super middleweight title.

In a fiercely competitive contest at the Woodbrook Indoor Facility in the city, Sinnette floored Mackey with a barrage of punches and referee Tommie Thomas stopped the contest at one minute, 37 seconds of round 11.

Sinnette, who was beaten by Mackey on a second round TKO in June 2007 in Nassau, improved his record to 19 wins (15 knockouts) against one loss.

“I feel great. I think I have redeemed myself,” Sinnette told CMC Sport after the contest.

“I always knew that I was the better fighter,” Sinnette added.

Mackey, who looked threatening in some of the early to middle rounds, fell to 18 wins (14 knockouts) against five losses.

The regional FedeLatin contest, sanctioned by the World Boxing Association (WBA), was riveting and Sinnette got stronger in the second half of the 12-round showdown.

With excellent use of the jab, the 34-year-old Sinnette frequently set up combinations and telling right hands and Mackey suffered facial cuts as he slumped to his second consecutive defeat.

Sinnette hurt Mackey with a right hook and the follow-up punches floored the Bahamian ex-Commonwealth champion.

Mackey, 29, beat the count, but appeared very unsteady and referee Thomas halted the bout, giving the local star what he described as “a well deserved victory”.

“The referee made a good decision because I was going at him again,” said Sinnette, who conceded that he was not in his best shape for the fight.

“The build up to the fight was not the best. I had sponsorship trouble and things like that which distracted me and prevented me for training and preparing as well as I wanted to,” Sinnette said.

After defeating Sinnette 2-1/2 years ago, Mackey had gone on to capture the Commonwealth title – beating Nigerian Michael Gbenga in July 2008 – but was stripped of that belt after a loss to Canada-based Haitian Adonis Stevenson in September.

Guyanese boxers dominated the other bouts on the four-fight card.

Joel McCrae beat Barbadian Marcus Thomas on a first-round TKO, junior lightweight Dexter Gonzalez knocked out the ageing Jamaican Mohammed Dawes in the third round, and Jermaine King beat T&T’s Kevin Diaz on a unanimous points decision.