Dexter ‘The Kid’ Marques to battle Barbadian as ProAm boxing extravaganza resumes

Apr 13, 2012 Sports

ProAm boxing returns to the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall (CASH) and

The boxers at yesterday’s ceremony seen affixing their signatures to their respective contracts.

Dexter ‘The Kid’ Marques will be required to pull off all the stops if he is get past Barbadian Ricardo Blackman when the two pugilists face off over 8 rounds in the main attraction of the April edition of the Friday Night Fights slated for Friday April 27 next. The card will also feature 8 amateur boxers battling for honours in four fights.
Mandessa Moses, a thrilling lightweight pugilist, will also engage in an 8 rounds bout against Trinidadian, Tiana Sosa following the abortion of an earlier bout between the two while Trinidadian based Guyanese, Iwan ‘Pure Gold’ Azore returns to fistic duty after conceding a loss to Simeon ‘Candyman’ Hardy in an earlier edition of the Friday Night Fights.
He challenges Jermaine King in a 4 round catchweight bout and that fight would be preceded by a clash of debutants David Thomas and Anson Greene in the Jnr/welterweight division.
The respective boxers convened at the Avenue of the Republic offices of Abdool and Abdools Insurance Brokers yesterday afternoon where they consummated the deal with the signing of contracts.
None of the overseas based fighters were present as they are still to fly into the country. However, Kaieteur Sport was reliably informed that they are engaged in stiff training at their respective gyms overseas.
As has become the norm those fighters present at the signing ceremony all exuded confidence with each committing to hard work during the preparatory sessions. For now, the locally based boxers would operate at gyms around the city while the overseas based pugilists would arrive soon to open camp, also at city gyms.
Moses will be at the Andrew ‘Sixheads’ Lewis Boxing Gym while King and Marques would be honing his skills at the Forgotten Youth Foundation (FYF) Boxing Gym, also in Albouystown. The amateur boxers to appear on the card would be announced later after officials of the Guyana Amateur Boxing Association (GABA) would have convened sometime this week.
The ProAm affair is a Guyana Boxing Board of Control (GBBC) initiative in collaboration with the Guyana Amateur Boxing Association (GABA) and the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports.
Activities would be recorded for future showing one week after the card has concluded.
The admission price remains at $1000 for adults while children pay half that amount. The first bell sounds at 20:00hrs sharp.