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Apr 02, 2016 Sports
Jamaica Observer – Courageous Guyanese lightweight boxer Revlon Lake rallied with a first-round damaged left eyebrow to sink Anthony Woods by majority decision in the Wray & Nephew White Overproof Rum Contender
Series at the Chinese Benevolent Association Auditorium in Jamaica on Wednesday night.
The bout was one of the most entertaining of the Contender Series, and when Lake was on the go, the crowd began to chorus the popular boxing rally cry, “Lick im, Shrimpy Lick im,” made famous during fights involving former Jamaica champion, Richard ‘Shrimpy’ Clarke.
Judges Lindel Allen and Peter Richards scored the bout 49-46 and 48-47 for Lake, respectively, while Judge Eddie Cotton saw it 48-47 for Woods.
This year’s Wray & Nephew of the Contender, the sixth edition, is being fought between Team America and Team Caribbean. Eight fighters will represent each team, and after four fights, Team Caribbean lead 3-1.
Richard ‘Frog’ Holmes, Tsetsi Davis and Lake have scored victories for the Caribbean outfit, while Team America’s Demarcus ‘Chop Chop’ Corley is the only winner.
Lake was making his second entry into the Contender Series and was a happy winner as it helped to appease some of the pain he felt at being knocked out at the first hurdle of the 2012 edition.
He said that experience was “still fresh in my mind and I came prepared to make amends”.
“I will take this victory from here and prepare myself for further conquests. My goal is to win this contest; nothing less will do,” Lake said.
Lake, who was scoring his second consecutive victory in 32 days, having won in another contest in his homeland, added: “It was a good fight. He (Woods) put up a good fight. I got cut in the first round and I was trying not to take any undue (hits) as every time I go back to the corner the blood kept running. Even so, the coach kept calling for the double jab, but with the blood running so heavily, I did not want them to stop the fight so I continued to be cautious in my approach and this paid off.”
Woods admitted that Lake was the “better fighter”.
“I came prepared to do much better than I had, but I must admit that he (Lake) is a better fighter than I had prepared for and, he came out on top,” he said.
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