Clive Junior Atwell (born 11 November 1988) is a Guyanese former

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who competed from 2010 to 2015 and challenged for the

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title in 2014. As an

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he won a bronze medal at the

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as a

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Amateur career

Atwell won gold at the Caribbean Amateur Boxing Association championships in Trinidad in 2006 and the bronze medal at the

in the

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category.

Professional career

His debut professional fight was 29 January 2010, where he defeated Carlton Skeete. Atwell challenged for his first world title on May 24, 2014 against

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champion

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, but lost by tenth-round technical decision. He fought Kye Mc Kenzie for the Interim PABA super featherweight title in Melbourne, Australia, but lost and was hospitalized after the fight, His next win was against Jamaican Sakima Mullings on 21 February 2015, for the super lightweight CABOFE WBC title. In October 2015, during a match for the FECARBOX World Boxing Council’s (WBC) lightweight title against Dexter Gonzales, Atwell fainted during the match. He was immediately hospitalized and later went to the US for corrective cranial surgery effectively ending his boxing career.

Professional boxing record

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Atwell, Clive 1988 births Living people Boxers at the 2007 Pan American Games Pan American Games bronze medalists for Guyana Featherweight boxers Super-featherweight boxers Lightweight boxers Light-welterweight boxers Guyanese male boxers Pan American Games medalists in boxing Medalists at the 2007 Pan American Games