Andrew `Sixhead’ Lewis lost his 25th professional fight because he didn’t have a game plan Vivian Harris believes. “He never looked like a fighter and was very amateurish,” Harris said of his compatriot when asked his thoughts about Lewis’ quest to win the World Boxing Organisation welterweight belt last Saturday night.
“I really didn’t expect that performance from `Sixhead’ he was like an amateur. It seems that he has learnt nothing from his trainers,” Harris said. Seeking to become the first Guyanese two-time world champion Lewis was knocked out by Mexican and WBO champion Antonio Margarito in two minutes 31 seconds of the second round.
The loss was Lewis’ second in his 13 year professional career and came within a year of his defeat at the hands of Ricardo Mayorga who took the Guyanese WBA welterweight title via a fifth round knockout. “Sixhead has these Spanish people around him and is not learning anything from them. He looked like he was fighting a pad. To make matter worse the kid he opposed can’t even fight,” Harris claimed.
Lewis was rocked by a right uppercut late in the round and Margarito followed with several unanswered punches, which forced referee Joe Cotzer to halt the bout. Quizzed on if the 32-year Lewis can rebound and make it back to the top Harris said that the former champion would first have to change his handlers.
“He can’t get back to the old `Sixhead’ with them trainers he has. He has to come back to where it all started. He has to take on a Guyanese trainer.”