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THE GUYANA Boxing Board of Control’s (GBBC) matchmaker and veteran referee Eion Jardine yesterday told Chronicle Sport that this month’s 28th edition of the Friday Night Fights (FNF) ProAm Boxing card will be held at the Uitvlugt Community Centre ground, on June 29. Originally, the card, which will see Trinidad and Tobago-based Guyanese Dexter Gonsalves face Barbados-based Guyanese Revlon Lake for the junior lightweight title, was set to take place at the Sophia Exhibition Centre, due to the unavailability of the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall (CASH) on May 24.
It was later pushed back to June 30 and was set to punch off at the CASH, after the executives of the GBBC deemed the Exhibition Centre as an inadequate venue for the card, among other reasons.
According to Jardine, the GBBC, in collaboration with Ansa McAl, one of their major sponsors, has agreed to take the fight to the West Side.
Slingerz Stereo will be providing musical entertainment for fight fans who are expected to storm the venue to witness the night’s action.
Two debutants, Laured Stewart and Romeo Norville, will be featured on the card, going up against Anson Greene and Eversley Browne respectively, while Troy Lewis will match gloves with Kelsie George, before Lake faces Gonsalves.
Jardine said the dates and two of the fights for the 29th and 30th editions of the FNF, which will be held in July and August, have been made known.
Reigning World Boxing Council/Caribbean Boxing Federation (WBC/CABOFE) featherweight and Guyana’s featherweight and lightweight champion Clive ‘Wonder Kid’ Atwell and Guyana’s first world champions Andrew ‘Sixhead’ Lewis, will feature prominently on both cards.
Atwell will face Barbados’ Matthew Robinson in an eight-round lightweight clash next month when the FNF will be held on July 26, at a venue to be named. On the following card which will be held on August 30, he will go up against another Barbadian, Sherwin Marshall, in an eight-round encounter, as part of his preparations for the WBC Cup Championships.
The 42-year-old Lewis, who has not fought since October 2008, when he lost the national middleweight title to Howard Eastman, will face George, only if the pugilist who hails from the Ancient County of Berbice defeats Troy Lewis this month-end. If not, a replacement fighter will be named for the elder Lewis.
On the August edition of the FNF, Andrew Lewis will seek to add the national junior middleweight title to his collection, when he faces recently crowned champion Mark Austin, who decisioned Gladwin Dorway when the GBBC hosted Firestorm in April of this year, to take the belt, in a 12-round encounter.
At the contract-signing ceremony for Firestorm, GBBC president Peter Abdool had said several boxers from Guyana will be making the trip to Jamaica to face several opponents there next month and, according to Jardine, the respective contracts for the boxers have arrived, with a signing date to be announced soon.
The boxers are: Dorway, Dexter ‘The Kid’ Marques, Anthony ‘Six Pack’ Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago-based Iwan Azore and reigning WBC/CABOFE middleweight champion Edmond De Clou.
It was later pushed back to June 30 and was set to punch off at the CASH, after the executives of the GBBC deemed the Exhibition Centre as an inadequate venue for the card, among other reasons.
According to Jardine, the GBBC, in collaboration with Ansa McAl, one of their major sponsors, has agreed to take the fight to the West Side.
Slingerz Stereo will be providing musical entertainment for fight fans who are expected to storm the venue to witness the night’s action.
Two debutants, Laured Stewart and Romeo Norville, will be featured on the card, going up against Anson Greene and Eversley Browne respectively, while Troy Lewis will match gloves with Kelsie George, before Lake faces Gonsalves.
Jardine said the dates and two of the fights for the 29th and 30th editions of the FNF, which will be held in July and August, have been made known.
Reigning World Boxing Council/Caribbean Boxing Federation (WBC/CABOFE) featherweight and Guyana’s featherweight and lightweight champion Clive ‘Wonder Kid’ Atwell and Guyana’s first world champions Andrew ‘Sixhead’ Lewis, will feature prominently on both cards.
Atwell will face Barbados’ Matthew Robinson in an eight-round lightweight clash next month when the FNF will be held on July 26, at a venue to be named. On the following card which will be held on August 30, he will go up against another Barbadian, Sherwin Marshall, in an eight-round encounter, as part of his preparations for the WBC Cup Championships.
The 42-year-old Lewis, who has not fought since October 2008, when he lost the national middleweight title to Howard Eastman, will face George, only if the pugilist who hails from the Ancient County of Berbice defeats Troy Lewis this month-end. If not, a replacement fighter will be named for the elder Lewis.
On the August edition of the FNF, Andrew Lewis will seek to add the national junior middleweight title to his collection, when he faces recently crowned champion Mark Austin, who decisioned Gladwin Dorway when the GBBC hosted Firestorm in April of this year, to take the belt, in a 12-round encounter.
At the contract-signing ceremony for Firestorm, GBBC president Peter Abdool had said several boxers from Guyana will be making the trip to Jamaica to face several opponents there next month and, according to Jardine, the respective contracts for the boxers have arrived, with a signing date to be announced soon.
The boxers are: Dorway, Dexter ‘The Kid’ Marques, Anthony ‘Six Pack’ Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago-based Iwan Azore and reigning WBC/CABOFE middleweight champion Edmond De Clou.
