BOXING fans and enthusiasts can expect an evening of exciting and entertaining boxing when the Guyana Boxing Board of Control (GBBC) stages its `Hostile Territory’ boxing card at the Giftland Mall, Pattensen, East Coast, Demerara from 20:00hrs.The highlight on the night’s card will be a 10-round bantamweight between Guyana’s United States-based Guyanese and International Boxing Federation Inter-Continental bantamweight champion Elton `The Bully’ Dharry and Venezuela’s Felix Machado.

The main supporting bout brings together Guyana and Caribbean Boxing Federation flyweight champion Dexter Marques and another Venezuelan, Freddy Baleno, in a 10-round flyweight contest.
The under card will see Revlon Lake match gloves for the fourth time with Barbados’ Miguel Antoine in an eight-round welterweight contest; Imran Khan will face Quincy Gomes in an all-Guyanese six-round lightweight affair; Cassius Matthews meets Keshon Simon in a six-round welterweight rematch and Mandessa Moses meets Ansilla Norville over four rounds in a female bantamweight contest.
Speaking with Chronicle Sport yesterday, Marques, Moses and Lake’s coach Lennox Daniels said his charges are very ready to do battle tonight and boasted that they are all 100 percent fit and ring-ready as they are physically and technically well-conditioned, “We are ready like Freddy,” Daniels quipped.
He said though Moses has not fought in three years, she has shown great signs of herself in years gone by and he is very certain that she can take care of herself against Norville.
Daniels revealed that it was only recently that Lake told him (Daniels) that he (Lake) lost on three occasions to Antoine and this will be the fourth fight against Antoine.
Asked if Lake is ready to reverse the decisions, Daniels said he is very confident that Lake can do it, but he stopped short of predicting the final result.
Daniels said Lake is looking sharper than in the past, is packing a much heavier punch “So I’m very confident he will come out on top.”
Over at the Forgotten Youth Foundation Gym in James Street Albouystown, Joseph Murray, a former lightweight fighter who is in charge of Quincy Gomes, said his charge is in very good shape and he (Gomes) did all his drills and is in excellent condition physically and mentally.
Asked if Gomes would have a problem with Khan’s height and longer reach, Murray informed that Gomes has been sparring with persons much taller and with longer reaches than himself so he (Murray) does not feel that Khan’s height and reach will be a bother for Gomes. ”My charge is ready to go to the end.”.
The Venezuelan fighters arrived in Guyana two days ago and did simple drills and from their physical appearances they look very much ready to give their Guyanese counterparts a fight for their money.
Dharry arrived in Guyana just about a week ago along with former Guyana and Commonwealth lightweight champion Lennox Blackmoore, as his coach, and engaged in finishing touches which included speed work and pad work but no sparring as he was winding down his preparations after completing most of his work at the Gleeson Gym in New York.
Dharry has a record of 19 wins, five losses and one draw.
The boxers weighed in last evening at the Giftland Mall and all are raring to go at their respective opponents.