One half of the business for maybe the biggest clash of two local boxers has been set and the other half is expected to come together in a week’s time. Andrew ‘Six Head’ Lewis yesterday put his signature on the dotted line of the contract for the mega fight between two of this country’s most illustrious prizefighters. Guyana’s first world boxing champion is set to match gloves with perennial world rater and two-time world title challenger Raul Frank. At a simple signing ceremony at the offices of Lewis’s Promoter/ Manager Odinga Lumumba, Lewis expressed pleasure that the fight which has been touted in boxing circles for years now, is finally on. “Frank frighten me ever since. He never want spar with me in the gym in the States but now he getting old he full of talks. But he’s a chicken and I gon deal with him,” Lewis boasted. With a little over a month remaining before the two match gloves at the National Stadium at Providence, Lewis says he will intensify his training.
Urging his fighter on a la Promoter Extraordinaire Don King, Lumumba called on `Six Head’ to make a prediction on what he would do to Frank. Obliging, the former World Boxing Association Jr. Welterweight champion went on, “I just want everybody turn out and see what I gon do to he. Just come out and support the fight because I gon send he back to pork knocking in the bush.” Lumumba said negotiations were only recently completed. “Frank is an impossibility man, a nice guy but impossible,” he said, referring to the demands of Frank during the negotiations. The New York-based fighter already has a copy of the contract and should be signing it sometime in the coming week in the presence of an emissary of Lumumba. The fight will be a ten rounder and Lumumba says matchmaker Maurice ‘Bizzy’ Boyce should have the card finalized in a week’s time. “We will release all the details including ticket prices in a week’s time when everything is set,” he said. Meanwhile Lewis was at his braggadocios best when asked about the challenges made by rising star Lennox Allen. “Allen just want a name for himself but if he serious, is all about the paper. Let him bring some money and sign on the dotted line,” he declared. Lumumba echoed those sentiments. “I love money, `Six Head’ loves money.
“Let them bring the money and come. He only talking through the media, nobody ain’t called me yet about it,” he said.
Lewis has not had a fight since his trilogy with ‘Deadly’ Denny Dalton and this is the latest of several attempts by Lumumba and Co. to resurrect the career and flagging fortunes of the first man to bring Guyana world championship boxing glory.
