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Mar 17, 2018 Sports
Technical Director of the Guyana Boxing Association (GBA) and National Coach, Terrence Poole, had signaled that he was 100% confident that the duo of Keeve Allicock and Colin ‘Superman’ Lewis would have qualified for the Central America and Caribbean (CAC) Games following their participation in the Barranquilla, Colombia, qualifying tournament in Mexico this month.
The promise of the Caribbean light welterweight champion, Superman Lewis and Commonwealth youth games silver medalist, Allicock, came through as both fighters finished with Bronze medals, qualifying for the CAC Games in the process.
Both fighters lost their semifinal matches in the Tijuana, Mexico hosted qualifiers. Head of the GBA, Steve Ninvalle shared with Kaieteur Sport that Superman’s loss, which was adjudged by a split decision, was a tough one, which he believed could’ve easily gone in the Guyanese’s favour by unanimous verdict in his fight against Eduardo Sanchez of Costa Rica.
Meanwhile, Ninvalle noted that Allicock is one of the best chances that Guyana has at medaling at the Olympics. Ninvalle shared that in Allicock’s semifinal fight against the current Olympic Bantamweight Champion, Cuba’s Robeisy Ramirez, who is also ranked number one in the world, the Guyanese, who is a flyweight, fought exceptionally well, pound for pound.
“Keeve will be going to the Commonwealth games as a flyweight but we allowed him to fight out his class and he has shown that he can medal with the best in the world. He has also shown Olympic medals are not far from our (Guyana) reach in only just five months as a Elite boxer,” Ninvalle further posited.
The pair of fighters along with Coach Terrence Poole are delighted to have qualified for the CAC Games and they are aiming to continue their impressive form of recent and will look to take things a notch higher and overcome sterner competition in Colombia this summer (July-August) at the Colombia Games. (Calvin Chapman)
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