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‘Sixhead’, Dalton to conclude April 7
Odinga Lumumba
GUYANA’S first world boxing champion Andrew `Sixhead’ Lewis will make a return to the ring on April 7 for his third consecutive fight with national junior middleweight champion `Deadly’ Denny Dalton.
The fight, dubbed `The Conclusion’ is being promoted by McNeal Enterprise in conjunction with two other promoters and will be held at the National Park.
Promoter Odinga Lumumba declared that it will be ‘Sparks in the Park’ when the two meet for the third time. “This is something Andrew Lewis wants to do. He feels that there is incomplete business between himself and Dalton, and there is. He wants this fight since he thinks that he owes something to the public and the public want answers,” Lumumba said.
In the first fight held on October 15, 2005, in a packed Cliff Anderson Sports Hall and dubbed `Doomsday Battle’, a clash of heads in the fourth round resulted in a gash over Lewis’ eye forcing a technical draw.
The former world champion, also known as the `Albouystown Cyclone’, was slightly ahead on points at the time of the stoppage.
The return, watched by a full house at the National Park last April was aptly titled `Unfinished Business’. Lewis survived a knockdown and was peppering Dalton when, in a bizarre turn in events he quit in the seventh round to hand the national junior middleweight title to Dalton.
Lewis later explained that he was in dire need of using the toilet, hence his decision to quit. He was ahead on points in that fight. “This is incomplete business. The public wants to know who the real champion is.
The first (fight) was good, the second was better and the third will top it all,” Lumumba added.
According to the promoter Lewis has been in training on the Linden/Soesdyke Highway for the past two weeks. His uncle `Valdez’ and another person, known as `Dougla Roy’, are overseeing the conditioning of the fighter.
“He wants it; there is no doubt about that. He asked to be taken away from all the distractions of Georgetown. There will be Sparks in the National Park.”
The card will be co-promoted by Barbadian Samuel Layne, manager of Leon `Hurry Up’ Moore and I Care Enterprise.
Lewis became Guyana’s first world champion in February 2001 after stopping James Page in the seventh round to win the vacant WBA welterweight title.
The victory sparked unprecedented wild celebrations in Guyana with President Bharrat Jagdeo declaring a national holiday and presenting land, $5M and duty-free concession to the champion.