Simeon Hardy to battle Mark Austin as Friday Night Fights resume

Mar 06, 2012 Sports

Following the successful staging of five Caribbean Boxing Federation (CABOFE) title bouts and having determined the champions to represent this country in the impending tournament to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the World Boxing Council (WBC), administrators of the Guyana Boxing Board of Control (GBBC) will resume the monthly Fight Nights extravaganza with four bouts that is geared to provide the usual thrills on Friday March 30.
Simeon Hardy has already qualified for the WBC tournament and will procure valuable activity when he comes up against Mark Austin in an 8 rounds welterweight scrap.
The latter boxer has had a fairy tale start to his career and had chalked up several victories before Barbadian, Miguel Antoine, checked his advancement with a majority decision win.
He then suffered another loss, this time at the hands of Barbados based Guyanese, Revlon Lake before rebounding with a victory over Jermaine King.
Austin has since proclaimed that he intends to dominate the ring in this new dispensation. He will find that Hardy is no pushover and since the man who had patented the chin check-a wicked left hook that has felled the majority of his opponents- will be using this bout to procure valuable activity in the interim to the WBC tournament, Austin will be required to enter the ring at his best if he is to win this bout. Mandessa Moses has built quite a reputation for herself after chalking up a clean slate locally. She will face Venezuelan Anys Cedilla in a super/bantamweight bout over 8 rounds. Moses will best be remembered for her brutal knockout victory over Alisha Marques in the early rounds of their 4 rounds scrap. Since then, Marques has refused to re-enter the ring and it is presumed that Moses has ended her career.
The lanky pugilist has surrendered just one bout to Barbadian, Wendy Alleyne and has vowed to avenge that loss.
However, it appears as though the Bajan pugilist is uninterested in a rematch since she has found every excuse in the book to avert a second encounter.
The Cedilla bout was initially planned for an earlier edition of the Friday Night Fights but the Venezuelan was unable to keep her ring date thus the postponement.
Rudolph Fraser had got the better of Barbadian, Gardiel Roberts in an earlier edition but the dissatisfaction exhibited by the Bajan has forced the organizers to bring the two pugilists together for a second time.
They will battle over 6 rounds in a junior/lightweight bout. Otherwise, newly crowned CABOFE middleweight champion, Edmond DeClou will square off with Kelsie George over 6 rounds.
The former boxer recently defeated Trinidadian, Kevin Placide to win the aforementioned title and like Hardy, will want to use this bout as preparation for the bigger tournament.
This certainly does not mean that he can take this fight lightly. The card is a great palate teaser and fans would want to be at the venue for a first hand and close up look at the unfolding action.

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