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‘Chicken Dharry will regret giving me this opportunity’ – says Rogers
Elton Dharry
Orland Rogers
“I will take care of Elton ‘Collie Bully’ Dharry, I mean ‘Chicken Dharry’. I will give this so call bully a sound trashing”. “The time for talk is over, now it’s time for action. I have spoken enough; I will let my fist do the talking. Now a days when you talk, officials get an attitude; they dislike you and would do any thing to offend you.
I know because I have suffered in that mould already.”
Those was the words of National Flyweight boxer Orlan ‘Pocket Rocket’ Rogers, who is fighting out of Berbice, when Kaieteur Sport caught up with him during his preparations at the Pocket Rocket Boxing Gym at the People’s National Congress Reform Building at the Corner of Strand and St Magdalene Street New Amsterdam.
Rogers and Dharry will meet in a catchweight contest in one of the supporting bouts of the BrisO Promotion boxing card which will feature four other fights on Saturday June 5 at the Princess International Hotel, Providence. The main attractions on the card are the two title fights featuring Shondell Alfred against Corrine DeGroot and Denny Dalton versus Hector Camacho Jnr.
The ‘Pocket Rocket’ will have to move up in weight to clash with Dharry, but said that will not be a problem, as he plans to take care of him anyway.
A pumped Rogers said, “When you have goals ahead, you should not let anything stand in your way.” He plans to use this as a stepping stone for a Commonwealth title shot.
“He will pay for what happen the last time the referee unceremoniously stopped the fight, when I was leading and that really upset me”. “I was all over this guy; he was lucky to get in some lucky blows and for some strange reason the referee stopped the fight, but those things happen. He is no bully he is lucky, He was given it by some accommodating officials, who probable wanted to be hospitable,” Rogers said.
“Let’s hope that he is here to fight and there will not be any excuse when it is done,” he told Kaieteur Sports.
Rogers, who has been hard at training for the much anticipated rematch, has been working out under the watchful eyes of former Guyana light heavyweight, champion Al Thomas and former National Amateur Champion Michael Crawford.
At the moment he works out in the morning, where he does some road work, skipping, shadow boxing and some other exercises. In the afternoons it’s down to some serious Gym work on the heavy and speed bags. After that it sparring time, where he receives gloves work from his own gym fighters including national Amateur fighters Kelsie George, Richard Williams and female fighter Rena David.
He is grateful to the promoters for giving him another chance to prove his class and his fans and supporters.
Taking another swipe at Dharry Rogers said, “Imagine he came in this country the last time after making a volley of excuses, fought some squeaky guy and call himself a champion. Good things come to those who wait and moon does run till day ketch am.”
Rogers had said before that Dharry was afraid of him and had called Dharry a chicken for dodging him. Back then he had said, “When he should have come to fight me last month he behave like a fowl and had a barrage of excuses. ‘He was ill, the purse wasn’t right, he wasn’t feeling good; his eyes were bad, the place was too cold, the negotiations weren’t complete, the excuses were endless’. How all of a sudden when he learnt that he is fighting somebody he could hop on a plane and be here? Its funny, in just a matter of a few weeks everything change and the man is here to do some kind of battle with a new comer.”
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