Dillon Carew makes a return
-Smart Touch Promotion boxing
By Steve Ninvalle
Stabroek News
June 15, 2003
Former national junior welterweight champion Dillon Carew will be lacing up his gloves again for another fight in his hometown. Carew has not fought in Guyana for years and intends to restart his career at home.
In an interview with Stabroek Sport the skilled but unlucky fighter said he intends giving boxing a last shot before calling it a day. Carew, who represented Guyana at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, plans to give the sport his best for the next three years then bow out.
The restart of his career begins on June 27 at the MSC ground in Linden in a six round welterweight contest against Mark Murray. “I have had ups and downs in my career but I have finally decided to give it a last shot,” the 34-year-old Carew told Stabroek Sport.
The fight is a preliminary contest on a Smart Touch card which has a female heavyweight battle between Linden’s Shondell `Dynamite’ Parks and Shelly `The Agricola Boom’ Gibson as the main bout.
Carew trains at the GDF gym under the eye of Lennox Daniels, the man who carried the late Andrew Murray to a world title. “This time around I want to have a minimum of three fights per year,” Carew said.
Carew started his professional career just after returning from Spain and won the local lightweight title following a 12-round decision over Glenn Forde in October of 1994.
In a career that spans 24 fights he has the distinction of doing battles with six fighters who went on to become world champions including WBA junior welterweight champion Diosbelys Hurtardo, IBF junior welterweight and WBA welterweight Meldrick Taylor, WBA lightweight champion Leonard Dorin and WBO junior welterweight champion Demarcus Corley.
Hurtardo, who went on to win the WBA junior welterweight title, was later knocked out by Guyanese Vivian Harris last October in Texas.
Carew took the fight on a day’s notice when he tackled Taylor, the former IBF junior welterweight champion usually remembered for his epic but unsuccessful battle against legendary Julio Caesar Chaves.
Taylor received a standing eight count in the sixth round but went on to win an unpopular split decision. “I have been in with some of the best and I still have some thing left in me. I’ll be in the ring, train hard and be ready for whatever comes,” the Olympian said.
The upcoming fight will be Carew’s second for the year and he hopes it will bring his first victory for the same period. “After Mark Murray it’s on to bigger things. I have got much more left in me and I’m just eager to show it out.”
