Eion Jardine

Today’s inductee into Stabroek Sports’ Boxing’s Hall-of-Fame is none other than the late Andrew`Sixhead’ Lewis.

This week I will focus on the performances of two female boxers who are being honoured because of the role they played in the development of female boxing in Guyana.

Stabroek Sports’ Boxing’s Hall of Fame If ever there was a family where boxing it seemed, ran through their veins so to speak, that family would have been the Frank family.

He is arguably the greatest professional boxer this country has ever produced and one of the hardest punchers of the fistic game.

Until recently, the sport of boxing enjoyed tremendous popularity in Guyana.

Former boxing promoter Keith Bazilio and boxing coach Maurice `Busy’ Boyce yesterday paid tributes to the late boxer Fitroy Whyte who was buried in the United States of America last Saturday.

To use a well worn boxing cliché pound-for-pound Lionel Gibbs was one of the best boxers of his era.

–the law, the bottles, the girls’ “There is always in the past, though made dim and twisted by the ravages of time, a star to light up the pathway to the present, a star that sometimes casts a silvery ray of light and hope into the future, such a star was the tanned, scarred leathery-faced man who goes by the name of `Young Joe Louis’” (Edward Phillips).

Caesar Barrow, former lightweight champion of Guyana was forced to quit the ring prematurely following a motorcycle accident on the East Bank Public Road in 1963.

Oxley Agard was born on May 14, 1906. As a young man growing up he started hanging around boxing gyms, lifting weights and performing strong-man stunts.

This is the final instalment of the series on boxers born in Guyana who have fought for the Commonwealth boxing titles.

(This is the second installment in the series of Guyanese boxers who have fought for Commonwealth titles) Reginald Forde Ford was born on June 11, 1953.