Post by B. Singh on Sept 7, 2006 7:39:41 GMT -5
Trindad Express
Can Jizelle do it?
Ian Prescott
Thursday, September 7th 2006
At age 40, Lisa Holewyne can be considered an old woman in athletic terms. She has lost as many fights as Jizelle Salandy has years on her clock, but she has fought some top fighters during that time.
But, getting whipped by top boxers such as Christi Martin-once considered the best woman fighter in the world-and twice by unbeaten American sensation Mary Joe Sanders (19-0-0 (5 KOs), does not necessarily make Holewyne any good. But she must have learnt something along the way.
On September 15 at Skinner Park, San Fernando, Holewyne matches her experience against Trinidad and Tobago's Jizelle Salandy, a young woman, who at 19 is approaching her prime.
On a boxing level, the pugilists are rated similar with the World Boxing Council (WBC) August rating listing Salandy as their #4 junior middleweight (154) contender and Holewyne as #5. Holewyne is listed as the #7 World Boxing Association (WBA) junior middleweight contender and Salandy the WBA super-lightweight contender. Since, it is only recently that the WBA and WBC have found it fit to get involved in women boxing, most of their titles are vacant. Therefore Salandy and Holewyne will fight for both the WBA and WBC junior-middleweight crowns.
Salandy has fought mostly Trinidadian and Guyanese fighters and also twice defeated Colombian Paolo Rojas. While, Salandy does not have apparent punching power, she certainly has boxing skill. She began her career in February 2000 with a couple knockout wins over Nimba Wahtuse and followed up with other wins over Ria Ranmarine, Joanne Pena and Anne Howard to be 5-0 at the end of that year. That record has since extended to 11 wins and one loss.
American Holewyne was born in Hawaii on March 10, 1966 before moving to Texas. Always an athlete, she excelled at softball and track, competing in the seven-event heptathlon, which includes the 100-metre hurdles, high jump, shot put, 200- and 800-metre races, long jump and javelin. As a boxer she won several regional Golden Gloves titles before she began to fight professionally in 1998 when she won her pro debut with a unanimous (40-36, 40-35, 40-36) four-round decision over veteran kickboxer Robyn Covino.
She was unbeaten for three years before losing her first fight. Holewyne then won a few and lost a few before scoring a ten-round unanimous decision over four-time world champion Marischa Sjauw (5'5", 141* lbs) of the Netherlands to take the vacant WIBF Welterweight title on April 21, 2001 at Chinook Winds Casino and Convention Centre, Lincoln City, Oregon, USA.
She took on Christi Martin then 44-2-2 (31 KOs) seven months later and lost a 10-round unanimous (99-91,98-92,98-92) decision. A year later, she was knocked out by then welterweight world champion Sumya Anani (21-1-1 (8 KOs) ) who held the WIBA Junior Welterweight, FBA Intercontinental Junior Welterweight and IBA Lightweight belts. She again lost a rematch to Anani and twice to Mary Jo Sanders. What is apparent is that Holewyne fights often, but almost never beats quality fighters who have winning records.
Salandy has a winning record, good skills and is not as accustomed to losing as Holewyne, who has 18 defeats and just over 20 wins to her name. At Skinner Park, Salandy should have too much in hand for the older woman who will no doubt be using her experience to keep off an aggressive young opponent. ...Is she unbeaten?
It seems it is easier to market an unbeaten prospect than one who has a blemish. Is Jizelle Salandy an unbeaten fighter? No, she is not!
Listed as 12-0 on several internet sights and often described to the local media as an unbeaten fighter, Salandy in fact has a single loss to Guyanese Shondell Alfred.
When contacted about his fighter's record on Saturday, wily promoter Buxo Potts was quick to point out: "Her record is 12-0."
Potts was quickly reminded that a couple of years ago, he had given a personal account of that fight in which he stated that Alfred had knocked Salandy down twice during the fight in Guyana.
What makes it strange, is that from being a fighter who everyone involved in the sport knew had a single loss, Salandy suddenly became an unbeaten fighter in the last two years.
Hear Potts: "The WBAN website lists her as record as 12 wins and no losses." What he failed to mention is that the website usually gets its record information from sources such as fighters, their managers; and their promoters. For instance, no where on T&T's Ria Ramnarine biography is listed that she lost to a 14-year-old called Jiselle Salandy some years aback. Ramnarine's manager, Bharath Ramoutar, has categorised that fight as an exhibition. So did, Potts, who now that he's Salandy's promoter, told Sport Express that the fight against Alfred was an exhibition.
However, Cecil Forde, president of the Trinidad and Tobago Amateur Boxing Association, does account that Salandy has a single loss on her record. Forde, once managed Salandy along with Fitzroy Richards, and it was he who took her to Guyana to fight Alfred. Just like Potts, back then, Forde had reported that Salandy had lost, and he re-confimed the fact again:
"Yes, she has one loss. It was to that Guyanese girl...Shondell Alfred, just before Jizelle won the title (WIBA Ibero American). She (Salandy) was knocked down in the fight...she was not knocked out. She got back up and fought well, but it was too late to win."
For the record, Salandy has one loss. But whether she has lost or not is not important. Marvin Hagler, Sugar Ray Leonard, Muhammad Ali all had losses. What is apparent is Salandy is still a hell of a boxing talent. No one loss can take that away from her.
Can Jizelle do it?
Ian Prescott
Thursday, September 7th 2006
At age 40, Lisa Holewyne can be considered an old woman in athletic terms. She has lost as many fights as Jizelle Salandy has years on her clock, but she has fought some top fighters during that time.
But, getting whipped by top boxers such as Christi Martin-once considered the best woman fighter in the world-and twice by unbeaten American sensation Mary Joe Sanders (19-0-0 (5 KOs), does not necessarily make Holewyne any good. But she must have learnt something along the way.
On September 15 at Skinner Park, San Fernando, Holewyne matches her experience against Trinidad and Tobago's Jizelle Salandy, a young woman, who at 19 is approaching her prime.
On a boxing level, the pugilists are rated similar with the World Boxing Council (WBC) August rating listing Salandy as their #4 junior middleweight (154) contender and Holewyne as #5. Holewyne is listed as the #7 World Boxing Association (WBA) junior middleweight contender and Salandy the WBA super-lightweight contender. Since, it is only recently that the WBA and WBC have found it fit to get involved in women boxing, most of their titles are vacant. Therefore Salandy and Holewyne will fight for both the WBA and WBC junior-middleweight crowns.
Salandy has fought mostly Trinidadian and Guyanese fighters and also twice defeated Colombian Paolo Rojas. While, Salandy does not have apparent punching power, she certainly has boxing skill. She began her career in February 2000 with a couple knockout wins over Nimba Wahtuse and followed up with other wins over Ria Ranmarine, Joanne Pena and Anne Howard to be 5-0 at the end of that year. That record has since extended to 11 wins and one loss.
American Holewyne was born in Hawaii on March 10, 1966 before moving to Texas. Always an athlete, she excelled at softball and track, competing in the seven-event heptathlon, which includes the 100-metre hurdles, high jump, shot put, 200- and 800-metre races, long jump and javelin. As a boxer she won several regional Golden Gloves titles before she began to fight professionally in 1998 when she won her pro debut with a unanimous (40-36, 40-35, 40-36) four-round decision over veteran kickboxer Robyn Covino.
She was unbeaten for three years before losing her first fight. Holewyne then won a few and lost a few before scoring a ten-round unanimous decision over four-time world champion Marischa Sjauw (5'5", 141* lbs) of the Netherlands to take the vacant WIBF Welterweight title on April 21, 2001 at Chinook Winds Casino and Convention Centre, Lincoln City, Oregon, USA.
She took on Christi Martin then 44-2-2 (31 KOs) seven months later and lost a 10-round unanimous (99-91,98-92,98-92) decision. A year later, she was knocked out by then welterweight world champion Sumya Anani (21-1-1 (8 KOs) ) who held the WIBA Junior Welterweight, FBA Intercontinental Junior Welterweight and IBA Lightweight belts. She again lost a rematch to Anani and twice to Mary Jo Sanders. What is apparent is that Holewyne fights often, but almost never beats quality fighters who have winning records.
Salandy has a winning record, good skills and is not as accustomed to losing as Holewyne, who has 18 defeats and just over 20 wins to her name. At Skinner Park, Salandy should have too much in hand for the older woman who will no doubt be using her experience to keep off an aggressive young opponent. ...Is she unbeaten?
It seems it is easier to market an unbeaten prospect than one who has a blemish. Is Jizelle Salandy an unbeaten fighter? No, she is not!
Listed as 12-0 on several internet sights and often described to the local media as an unbeaten fighter, Salandy in fact has a single loss to Guyanese Shondell Alfred.
When contacted about his fighter's record on Saturday, wily promoter Buxo Potts was quick to point out: "Her record is 12-0."
Potts was quickly reminded that a couple of years ago, he had given a personal account of that fight in which he stated that Alfred had knocked Salandy down twice during the fight in Guyana.
What makes it strange, is that from being a fighter who everyone involved in the sport knew had a single loss, Salandy suddenly became an unbeaten fighter in the last two years.
Hear Potts: "The WBAN website lists her as record as 12 wins and no losses." What he failed to mention is that the website usually gets its record information from sources such as fighters, their managers; and their promoters. For instance, no where on T&T's Ria Ramnarine biography is listed that she lost to a 14-year-old called Jiselle Salandy some years aback. Ramnarine's manager, Bharath Ramoutar, has categorised that fight as an exhibition. So did, Potts, who now that he's Salandy's promoter, told Sport Express that the fight against Alfred was an exhibition.
However, Cecil Forde, president of the Trinidad and Tobago Amateur Boxing Association, does account that Salandy has a single loss on her record. Forde, once managed Salandy along with Fitzroy Richards, and it was he who took her to Guyana to fight Alfred. Just like Potts, back then, Forde had reported that Salandy had lost, and he re-confimed the fact again:
"Yes, she has one loss. It was to that Guyanese girl...Shondell Alfred, just before Jizelle won the title (WIBA Ibero American). She (Salandy) was knocked down in the fight...she was not knocked out. She got back up and fought well, but it was too late to win."
For the record, Salandy has one loss. But whether she has lost or not is not important. Marvin Hagler, Sugar Ray Leonard, Muhammad Ali all had losses. What is apparent is Salandy is still a hell of a boxing talent. No one loss can take that away from her.