Woods-Lake bout Contender feature
Team USA’s Anthony Woods and Guyana’s Revlon Lake of Team Caribbean will highlight the Wray & Nephew White Overproof Contender boxing series at the Chinese Benevolent Association Auditorium starting at 9:30 pm today.
The card will open with two three-round amateur fights at 8:30 pm.The main bout is the fourth fight on the 2016 Contender Series schedule and is billed to be a close contest between the two fighters. Lake has a ring record of 23 fights — eight wins, 13 defeats and two draws, and is no stranger to local boxing audiences, having fought the former Wray & Nephew Contender winner, Sakima Mullings, in the opening fight of the series two years ago. He was knocked out in the fourth round of the six-round contest by Mullings.Lake is already in Jamaica to complete his training after fighting a few weeks ago when he defeated Miguel Antoine over five rounds on February 27 at the Giftland Office Max Lilliendaal, Guyana.“I have been preparing to go all the way in the Contender Series this year. I know very little of my opponent and this is a very good reason for me not to be caught underprepared for the clash,” said Lake. Very little is known about Woods’ fighting record, but the 24-year-old resident of Tennessee, USA, who up to press time had not yet arrived in the island, is said to have fought some 19 times.— Hurbun Williams
The card will open with two three-round amateur fights at 8:30 pm.
The main bout is the fourth fight on the 2016 Contender Series schedule and is billed to be a close contest between the two fighters.
Lake has a ring record of 23 fights — eight wins, 13 defeats and two draws, and is no stranger to local boxing audiences, having fought the former Wray & Nephew Contender winner, Sakima Mullings, in the opening fight of the series two years ago. He was knocked out in the fourth round of the six-round contest by Mullings.
Lake is already in Jamaica to complete his training after fighting a few weeks ago when he defeated Miguel Antoine over five rounds on February 27 at the Giftland Office Max Lilliendaal, Guyana.
“I have been preparing to go all the way in the Contender Series this year. I know very little of my opponent and this is a very good reason for me not to be caught underprepared for the clash,” said Lake.
Very little is known about Woods’ fighting record, but the 24-year-old resident of Tennessee, USA, who up to press time had not yet arrived in the island, is said to have fought some 19 times.
— Hurbun Williams
