Gwendolyn O’Neil: Guyana’s most decorated female boxing champion

Gwendolyn O’Neil with her belts.

By Eion Jardine

Gwendolyn O Neil is, by a long way, the most successful female boxer this country has ever produced.

Don’t believe me? Just check her record.

Twenty-nine fights, eight losses and two draws, says her career record but O’Neil has racked up a slew of records locally.

Not only was she the lightweight champion of Guyana but she is also a two-division world champion and all that  being just five feet, nine inches tall.