| Biography | Sylvester "The Master Blaster" Mittee ( (1956-10-29) 29 October 1956 (age 57)) is a Saint Lucian/British amateur lightweight and professional light welter/welter/light middleweight boxer of the 1970s and '80s who as an amateur won the 1973 Amateur Boxing Association of England (ABAE) Junior Class-B title boxing out of Crown and Manor ABC, Hoxton, London, won the 1976 Amateur Boxing Association of England (ABAE) lightweight title, against Thomas McCallum] (Sparta BC), boxing out of Repton Amateur Boxing Club, Bethnal Green, London, and represented Great Britain as a lightweight in the Boxing at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada, losing to eventual silver medal winner Simion Cutov of Romania, and as a professional won the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC) Southern (England) Area light welterweight title, BBBofC British welterweight title and Commonwealth welterweight title, and was a challenger for the BBBofC British light welterweight title against Clinton McKenzie, and European Boxing Union (EBU) welterweight title against Lloyd Honeyghan. |