GUYANESE super middleweight Lennox Allen is set to battle American Martin Verdin tomorrow evening in an eight-round bout scheduled for the BB King Blues Club and Grill in New York.
The fight would be Allen’s first for the year and the USA-based southpaw will be looking to extend his knockout streak which is currently at three.Allen is highly favoured to come out on top against Verdin, who is from Louisiana. The American has lost 19 of 42 fights and had only one victory from his last four bouts. Allen on the other hand has never been defeated in 21 trips to the ring.
Last year he fought three times and won all by stoppages.
Tomorrow night’s contest would be Allen’s third fight at the venue, the last being in January 2015 when he knocked out Ghanaian Kojo Issah in the second round. In his last fight Allen upset Hungarian Istvan Zeller to win by TKO in round two.
That contest was staged in Virginia last October. The New York-based Allen turned pro in 2004 and racked up a record of 20-0 with 13 knockouts. He has drawn one fight.
He captured the vacant World Boxing Council, Caribbean Boxing Federation (CABOFE) title in 2011 following a unanimous 12-round decision over Kwesi Jones at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.
Allen’s career slowed after that, resulting in the 30-year-old having only one fight in 2012 and a similar number in 2013. He did not enter the ring in 2014.