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Aug 29, 2009 Sports
By Michael Benjamin
The bout is approximately four weeks away but local women’s bantamweight champion, Shondell Alfred, has already commenced sparring sessions as she aspires to be the second local female boxer, following Gwendolyn O’Neil’s victory over Kathy Rivers for the Women’s International Boxing Association (WIBA) light/heavyweight title, to win a world title for Guyana.
Alfred is scheduled to meet American Corinth DeGroot, at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall, on September 26, for the Women’s International Boxing Association (WIBA) bantamweight title. Both Alfred and her coach, Sebert Blake are oozing confidence and yesterday afternoon Alfred churned out 10 rounds of sparring against Delon Allicock at the Forgotten Youth Foundation (FYF) where she is currently undergoing a stiff training regiment for what her coach described as the most important fight of her life. Indeed, Alfred was in a no nonsense mood as she matched the aggression of her male sparring partner.
As Allicock shifted to his right and unleashed a vicious one-two combination, Alfred blocked, and dished out a few of her own. Undaunted, Allicock responded with a right uppercut to Alfred’s body and a left hook to her head. Shuffling to her left, Alfred nullified the powerful uppercut while effectively slipping the hook. “This is the kind of work I’ve been concentrating on,” said Blake. He also intimated that the initial segment of the sparring sessions (which started 2 weeks ago) was used to experiment with several moves just to ascertain Alfred’s adaptability.
“This afternoon Shondell will spar for ten rounds to give her a feel of the requirements of combat,” Blake explained.
He also said that his charge would compliment her afternoon sessions with weights training in the morning.
“Shondell is a skillful boxer and a little weights training would strengthen her muscles which in turn will augment her punching power,” Blake believes.
Meanwhile, over at the Andrew ‘Sixhead’ Lewis Boxing Gym (ALBG), also in Albouystown, Leon Moore was pounding away on the heavy bag. A slim boxer with a deceptive physique that belies his awesome punching power, Moore engages Colombian, Mauricio Pastrano for the North American Boxing Association (NABA), the FedeLatin, FedeCaribe and the Caribbean Boxing Federation (CABOFE) titles.
Yesterday afternoon, Moore engaged in hectic sparring sessions with Dexter Marques and Paul Lewis (jnr). Consequently, he switched to the heavy punching bag and then shadow boxed before rounding off his sessions with half an hour of rigid skipping.
He remains confident that he would come out victorious in this bout.
The other fights comprising the card are: Howard ‘Battersea Bomber’ Eastman against Barbadian Kevin Placide in a 10 rounds middleweight affair, while Paul Lewis (jnr) fights Shawn Pile over 6 rounds.
Dexter Marques tackles Hewley Robertson in a 4 rounds bantamweight affair while the opponent for heavyweight champion, Michelle Rogers is yet to be announced.
Meanwhile, promoter, Carwyn Holland said that all systems are in place for a qualitative card.
He said that there are indications that the Government would pitch in with some assistance since the card would also showcase Guyanese talent as well local products.
The fighters continue their preparations at various gyms around the country.
THIS IDIOT TELLING GUYANA WE HAVE NO SAY IN THE 50% PROFIT SHARING AGREEMENT WE HAVE WITH EXXON.
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