Holmes faces Crowley in Canadian Pro Boxing Council
Jamaican boxer Richard “Frog” Holmes will earn his biggest payday tonight when he meets the undefeated Canadian boxer Cody “The Crippler” Crowley in the Canadian Professional Boxing Council super-welterweight international champion’s title fight.
It will be staged at the Peterborough Memorial Centre as part of Homecoming II for Crowley.
Both boxers said that they were raring to go and before departing for Canada, Holmes said that he was optimistic of his chances. “I know little of Crowley, but I have prepared well for this fight and I am expecting to go one better than my Contender efforts.”
Holmes, 29, is one of Jamaica’s leading boxers in the 153lb weight class and has reached the final of the Contender series twice. At present he has a ring record of 15 wins against seven losses with eight KOs from 22 fights, and has gone 97 rounds to date and has never been knocked out.
Nonetheless, his opponent, who has a perfect 12 and 0 with six KOs, has promised to be the first to knock out Holmes to make a statement. Crowley said he has fought the best fighters in Las Vegas and he has just come out of an eight-week training camp with Floyd Mayweather, who is the best fighter in the world.
Holmes’ title shot was made possible by Canadian boxing promoter Tyler Buxton, a frequent visitor to the annual Wray and Nephew White Overproof Rum Contender boxing series.
— Hurbun Williams