Gairy St. Clair

Gairy St Clair
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Real name Gairy St Clair
Nickname(s) "Superman"
Weight(s) Junior Lightweight
Nationality Guyana Guyanese
Born (1975-02-02) 2 February 1975
Georgetown, Guyana
Stance Orthodox
Boxing record
Total fights 60
Wins 46
Wins by KO 18
Losses 12
Draws 2
No contests 0

Gairy St. Clair (born 2 February 1975 in Georgetown, Guyana) is a professional boxer in the junior lightweight (130 lb) division. He is the former IBF world junior-lightweight champion.

He is now based in Australia and is currently trained by Johnny Lewis. After representing Guyana at the 1994 Commonwealth Games,[1] St Clair turned professional in 1994 in his hometown of Georgetown, Guyana. He went undefeated in 16 bouts with 15 wins and 1 draw before losing a unanimous decision to a then undefeated Diego Corrales. On 29 July 2006 Gairy challenged Cassius Baloyi for the IBO and IBF super-featherweight titles. Gairy became world champion winning by a unanimous decision with judges scoring the bout: 116-112 | 115-113 | 115-114. Gairy however lost the titles in a massive upset to Malcom Klassen a few months later.

On 2 February 2008, he challenged Commonwealth Lightweight champion Amir Khan in the ExCel arena in London, losing after 12 rounds by unanimous points decision 120-108, scored for Khan by all three judges. Although he lost all 12 rounds fought on the scorecard, St Clair managed to hold a steady fight against Khan and kept his composure despite having to deal with Khan's trademark lightning-quick jabs.

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References

  1. ↑ "15.Commonwealth Games - Victoria, Canada - August 18-28 1994". amateur-boxing.strefa.pl. Retrieved 2017-07-09.
Preceded by
Cassius Baloyi		 IBF Super Featherweight Champion
29 Jul 2006 – 4 Nov 2006		 Succeeded by
Malcolm Klassen
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