Former two time Guyana boxing champion Jeff Roberts wants 24-year-old Joel Williamson to fight for the national title on the upcoming Gairy St Clair Superhero Fight Night Promotions Company double world title fight card later this year.
Roberts, manager/trainer of Williamson, told Stabroek Sports last evening that he thinks his charge is ready to fight for the national title despite him having only one professional fight.
Williamson, nephew of Howard `Battersea Bomber’ Eastman, scored a unanimous decision over Anson Green in a four-rounder in his debut professional fight in September of 2018 at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.
Williamson is a former amateur Caribbean champion and Roberts, who held the battamweight and featherweight titles of Guyana, said that his charge can fight either for the lightweight or junior welterweight title of Guyana.
“I’m feeling great, a title win will be a start for me,” Williamson told Stabrok Sport last evening.
He said that he plans to be one of the better boxers this country has ever produced.
Match maker of the local professional board Eion Jardine, said last night that there was no problem with Williamson fighting for the national title in his second professional fight pointing out that Dexter Marques fought Orlan Rogers for the bantamweight title in his second fight while Michael Anthony Parris, Guyana’s lone Olympic boxing bronze medallist, won the national bantamweight title in his fourth professional fight defeating Anthony `The Pearl’ Andrews who was in his fourth pro fight also.
Jardine said while no opponent has been named as yet the Guyana Boxing Board of Control (GBBC) was looking at either Green or Quincy Gomes as opponents.
