I’ll chew ‘Chico’
-‘Stealth Bomber’ O’Neil
By Steve Ninvalle
Stabroek News
May 17, 2003
Gwendolyn `The Stealth Bomber’ O’Neil is adamant that three is an unlucky number. She has faced Margaret `Chico’ Walcott twice and next Saturday will mark the third time that the two female gladiators step into the ring to fight each other.
O’Neil is convinced that it will be the last time that her nemesis will ever compete in a professional boxing match. “She going straight to A and D or Sandy Funeral Parlour. They robbed me the last time I fight she and say that it was a draw. This time I drawing blood,” O’Neil said yesterday.
The fight is the main supporting event on a card promoted by the Guyana Boxing Board of Control and will be over eight rounds. The female light heavyweight title of Guyana will be at stake.
O’Neil was given the decision when the two first met at Thirst Park but the second fight was adjudged a draw. O’Neil, rated second in the world in the light heavyweight category, claimed that the last time they fought Walcott bit her on the neck.
However, she promised that a repeat would not be possible since Walcott would be searching for her teeth from the opening round.
“She bite me on my neck then. I was waiting for a chance to repay she all the time. Walcott gon be third time unlucky. I gon chew she,” O’Neil declared.
The 33-year-old O’Neil trains at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall under the eye of Lennox Daniels and Terrence Poole. Walcott, on the other hand is preparing at the Forgotten Youth Foundation under Maurice `Bizzy’ Boyce.
O’Neil has not sparred a single round with a female opting to mix it with the males. “I’m very confident that the fight will not go the distance. I have been sparring with only men. Walcott will not be able to take what I dish out. I’ll be really mean in this fight. I’ll chew her up and spit her out.” The main bout of the card will feature local junior middleweight `Deadly’ Denny Dalton clashes with Barbados-based St Lucian Christopher `Shaka’ Henry over 10 rounds.
In one of the preliminaries female heavyweights Cheryl Greaves and Shelly Gibson match gloves over four rounds. Earl Dean face Dexter Breedy in an eight-rounder.
The card is the first to be promoted by the GBBC for 2003 and has an additional attraction since the board has organised a fight between `old timers’. Cecil `Koker Dog’ Alfred takes on Dennis Mackenzie in the four-rounder.
