Three amateur fights on “Hostile Territory” card

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The “Hostile Territory” boxing card at the Giftland Mall on February 27 will comprise three amateur fights, one of which will be an exhibition bout.

Dennis Thomas and Desmond Amsterdam, who will head to a box-off in Argentina later this year with the hope of qualifying for the Rio Olympics, will clash in the exhibition contest, followed by Clairmonte Gibson against Dillon Charles in a bantamweight fight.

Nandkumar Singh and Jason Phillips will meet in a junior welterweight bout to round off the amateur segment. Five professional fights are also carded for the evening, featuring boxers from Guyana, Barbados, Venezuela and Panama.

United States of America-based Guyanese Elton “Coolie Bully” Dharry will form one half of the feature contest, as he is slated to trade punches with Panama’s Israel Hibrigo. The 10-round bantamweight showdown will serve as a warm-up for Dharry ahead of a British Commonwealth fight on May 21.

Dharry would no doubt look to extend his current record, which stands at 19 wins, 12 by way of knockout, five losses and one draw. He will enter the ring on the strength of a 16-bout winning streak, stretching way back to 2010.

The main supporting bout will be a Guyana versus Venezuela thriller, as local boy Dexter Marques will face off with his neighbouring Spanish-speaking rival Freddie Beleno in a 10-round flyweight fight.

Marques, currently boasting six wins on the trot, has a record of 14 victories (5 KOs) and two defeats, while Beleno has 26 wins (15 KOs) and 10 losses, including seven in his last seven fights, dating back to 2008.

In the other fights, Trinidad and Tobago-based Guyanese Revlon Lake will face Miguel Antoine of Barbados in an eight-round welterweight clash; Imran “Magic” Khan will meet Quincy Gomes in a 135 lbs all-Guyanese contest; while the Guyanese pair of Mandessa Moses and Anselle Norville will collide in a four-round bantamweight.

Admission to the venue is Gy$5,000 ringside and Gy$3,000 outer ringside. The card is a collaborative effort of the Guyana Boxing Board of Control and the Giftland Mall, and is the second such partnership between the two entities.

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