GUYANESE Anson Green will make his return to the ring against Barbados’ Keithland King on January 20, with the Guyana Boxing Board of Control (GBBC) announcing that the bout was added to their ‘Bad Blood’ boxing card, set for the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.

The two fighters will meet over four rounds in a junior middleweight bout and it would be Green’s first time back in the ring since he was knocked out by Jamaican Michael Gardener in the Land of Wood and Water on July 2, 2016.

It would be Green’s eighth appearance in the ring, after winning just two of his previous outings and losing five.
For King, the clash against the Guyanese fighter would be just his second time in the ring, following his debut win over American Rob Mitchell last August.

Dexter ‘The Kid’ Marques, Elton ‘Coolie Bully’ Dharry, Shawn Corbin and Dexter ‘Cobra’ Gonsalves will defend the ‘Land of Many Waters’ against the invasion of fighters from Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados and Venezuela, at the GBBC’s ‘Bad Blood’.

Marques, the reigning CABOFE and Guyana flyweight champion, will headline the card against a Venezuelan Dionis Martinez Arias, and this fight is seen as a warm-up for his Commonwealth title shot against Jay Harris of Wales on March 31 at the Copperbox Arena.
Marques is the mandatory challenger for Harris, who is the current Commonwealth flyweight title-holder. That fight is being promoted by Frank Warren’s Queensberry Promotions.

Marques currently has a record of 16-2-0 and is unbeaten in his last eight fights. His last defeat was against Dharry in May 2011.
Dionis Martinez Arias holds a ring record of six wins, nine losses and two draws in his 17 outings in the ‘square circle’.

Dharry, the WBC CABOFE and IBF Inter-Continental bantamweight champion, will face Venezuelan Jesus Vargas Garcia. No doubt the fiery pugilist would want to extend his unbeaten run, which is currently at 18 fights. His last defeat was way back in 2009.
With a record of 21-5-1, the reigning Guyana bantamweight champion, who is based in USA, will fight in Guyana for the first time since February 2016.

Gonsalves will also use the upcoming fight as preparation for a clash against Bahamas lightweight champion Meacher Major, and once the result goes his way the Guyanese could be in with a shot at the Commonwealth title.

Felipe Larez Barcelo will be making his fifth professional appearance in the ring when he faces Gonsalves, with the Guyanese fighter already signalling an early night for his opposition from ‘across the border’.

Meanwhile, Corbin will be making a return to the ring for the first time since losing to England’s Nathan Cleverly in 2014, in the United Kingdom, for the vacant WBA Inter-Continental cruiserweight title.

In fact, it will be his first fight in Guyana since 2013 when he stopped Anthony Augustin at the Mackenzie Sports Club ground in Linden.
Corbin has fought 22 times, winning 15 of those bouts, and losing five. His opponent on January 20, Sheldon Lawrence, a light heavyweight out of Trinidad and Tobago, is undefeated in his last four bouts and holds a record of 10 wins (eight by knockouts) and one loss.