Lewis proves skeptics wrong with points win over Dalton
Stabroek News
April 9, 2007
It was dubbed by the promoters `Unfinished business' just one of many monikers boxing promoters dream up to help promote their bouts.
But, after Andrew `Sixhead' Lewis won Saturday night's bout against `Deadly' Denny Dalton at the National Park tarmac the matter is still not finished.
Lewis, the former world champion, proved those who were quick to write him off wrong as he emphatically captured the National light-middleweight title.
Lewis and Dalton had met twice before. On the first occasion in October 2005 an accidental head-butt in round four robbed Guyanese fight fans from seeing what was turning out to be the classic fight between the boxer Lewis and the brawler Dalton.
That fight was declared a technical draw.
In the re-match, held in April last year, Lewis quit on his stool. He later claimed to have been affected by a case of diarrhoea after claiming to have drunk milk shake prior to the bout.
Even though Dalton won that contest, the questions surrounding the two boxers were not answered conclusively hence the need for the trilogy.
Again, Lewis' win Saturday raises more questions than answers over who is the better boxer/fighter.
Lewis, a former holder of the World Boxing Association (WBA) welterweight crown, dominated the 12-round contest in front of a fair-sized crowd and won handsomely on all the judges' cards.
"I've been training really hard and although my opponent kept trying and trying, he's just not ready for Sixhead," Lewis said after the fight.
Lewis controlled the action for most of the fight but suffered a cut over his left eye and was floored in the seventh round.
But Dalton, who also suffered a knockdown, faded in the latter rounds, resorting to constant holding while Lewis built up the lead.
Judge Andrew Thorne scored the bout 117-111 for Lewis, while Ian Alves and Rawle Aaron also favoured Lewis by wide margins, 118-110 and 120-108, respectively.
Lewis, became Guyana's first world boxing champion when he defeated American James Page in February 2001 in Las Vegas.
In other bouts Barbadian Curtis Murray suffered a third-round loss to local boxer Mitchell Rogers in a heavyweight clash light heavyweight boxer Dexter Marquez stopped Carlton Skeete in the first round.
Light middleweight Lennox Allen beat Winston Pompey on points and in the lone woman's bout, Veronica Blackman out-pointed Sharon Ward in a super flyweight contest.