Sylvester Mittee

Sylvester "The Master Blaster" Mittee (born 29 October 1956) 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 [1], Hoxton, London, won the 1976 Amateur Boxing Association of England (ABAE) lightweight title, against Thomas McCallum[2] (Sparta BC), boxing out of Repton Amateur Boxing Club [3], Bethnal Green, London, and represented Great Britain as a lightweight in the Boxing at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, losing to eventual silver medal winner Simion Cuţov 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, his professional fighting weight varied from 139 lb (63 kg; 9 st 13 lb), i.e. light welterweight to 151 ⁄₂ lb (68.7 kg; 10 st 11.5 lb), i.e. light middleweight.

Below is the record of Sylvester Mittee, a British lightweight boxer who competed at the 1976 Montreal Olympics:

• Round of 64: bye
• Round of 32: lost to Simion Cutov (Romania) referee stopped contest in the third round