‘Police’ look to arrest Osbourne in Contender Series
TEAM Jamaica’s Donovan ‘Police’ Campbell, the grandfather of Jamaican boxing at 45 years old, and the winner of the Wray & Nephew Contender Boxing series in 2012, returns to the ring for the fourth season and 2014 edition against Anthony Osbourne at the Chinese Benevolent Association Auditorium tonight.
Campbell, representing Team Jamaica, and Osbourne of Team Caribbean, will contest the sixth fight of the eight-fight preliminary rounds in the welterweight contest. They will go six rounds with the winner continuing to the next round to have a chance to compete for the major slice of $3 million in prize money, with the winner sinking away the $2 million, along with the title of Jamaica Ultimate Welterweight Boxer.
The runner-up will also pocket $500,000, third place $250,000 and fourth place $200,000.
Campbell stands at 5′ 9″ and has a ring record of 11 wins against eight losses and one draw. Osbourne, at age 39, stands at 5′ 8″. He has a ring record of nine wins and 37 losses with one draw.
The three-fight card offers 12 rounds of boxing that include the main bout between Campbell and Osbourne that is scheduled to begin at approximately 9:30 pm with the first of two amateur fights, over three rounds, opening the programme at approximately 7:30 pm.
Osbourne is a Jamaican representing Team Caribbean with the rest of his teammates coming from Guyana, Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago.
The battle between these two journeymen boxers is expected to be just as keen and competitive as the previous five, with four of those victories going to Team Jamaica in Sakimo Mullings, Richard ‘Frog’ Holmes, Ramel ‘Sub Zero’ Lewis, and Tsetsi ‘Lights Out’ Davis. Christopher ‘Shaka’ Henry has registered Team Caribbean’s only success.