ONCE again, the Peter Abdool-steward Guyana Boxing Board of Control (GBBC), in collaboration with its budding list of sponsors, will seek to whet the appetite of local boxing fans, when Firestorm comes off on April 20 at the Princess Hotel, Providence.

On that night boxing fans and enthusiasts who are expected to throng the venue will see Guyana’s featherweight and lightweight and World Boxing Council/CABOFE super lightweight champion Clive Atwell in action against Mexico’s Raphael Hernandez for the WBC/CABOFE featherweight title.
However, in a strange twist of things, WBC/CABOFE welterweight champion Simeon ‘Candyman’ Hardy was pulled from the WBC Championship Cup by his manager, Cameron Dunkin, forcing Abdool who is also the WBC/CABOFE president, to strip him of such accolades.
Such an act leaves Barbados’ Miguel ‘Hands of Stone’ Antoine to face Jamaica’s Sakina Mullings a former Commonwealth Boxing Council Caribbean zone middleweight champion and whose record reads 11-1 (7ko’s), to do battle for Hardy’s title.
According to the GBBC matchmaker Eion Jardine, another fight on the card pits Syria’s Mahmoud ‘The Extractor’ Loul who made an impressive debut on last month’s ‘Night of Champions 11’, by recording a second round TKO victory over Patrick Boston, against Derick Richmond of Berbice in a four-round super middleweight contest.
Elton ‘The Bully’ Dharry will also be back in action, lacing up his gloves for a battle with Jamaica’s Rudolph Hedge last month, doing so this time for the vacant national bantamweight crown with Hewley Robertson over 12 rounds.
In another title fight on the cards Mark Austin meets Gladwin Dorway for the national junior middleweight crown, while there will be two amateur bouts involving two females and the crowd-puller Nandkumar Singh who will face an opponent yet to be named.