London is warm-up for Nigeria’s Ijeoma – O’Neil

Gwendolyn O’Neil

By Iva Wharton

Guyana’s female heavyweight boxing champion Gwendolyn O’Neil says her match against Pauline London is one of the things she is doing to warm-up for her upcoming match with Nigerian Ijeoma Egbunine but her main reason for returning home is family.

O’Neil who arrived in Guyana last Friday, spoke with Stabroek Sport yesterday at the Andrew ‘Six heads’ Lewis gym where she is in training. The ‘Stealth Bomber’ said while she is fully prepared for the fight and has been training round-the-clock in the US where she resides, “I saw Pauline fight, but she does not have anything to put me away.”

A confident O’Neil said she is preparing