BOXING returned to the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall (CASH) for the first time since November 2022 with last night’s seven-bout Pro/Am Card headlined by Bantamweight pugilist Elton Dharry.
CASH was closed for renovations and upgrading.

The card, a collaboration among Elton Dharry Promotions, NexGen Global Promotions and the Guyana Boxing Board of Control (GBBC), with sponsorship from the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport, was attended by a large gathering of fans.

Despite a few non-working lights, the soon-to-be-fully refurbished venue provided great advertisement for a proposed first (Male) World title fight in May on Guyanese soil — Dharry will fight for the title.

The raucous fans, live-streaming, pulsating music, riveting boxing and the first-of-its-kind (in Guyana) fireworks entry for the boxers on the main and supporting bouts, created a fantastic atmosphere.

The partisan fans were joyous in the festive season, as the Guyanese beat their three overseas opponents.
In the feature presentation, the undefeated 23-year-old Colombian Randy Ramirez, who has won all of his 10 fights, including seven by way of KOs, tried to be aggressive in the opening moments of his six-round Bantamweight contest with Dharry, who turned 39 on December 1.

However, the experienced Guyanese, who campaigns out of New York, counter-attacked with japs and well-executed combinations to the body and head to win the first round to the delight of the crowd, which included Guyana’s only Olympic medalist Michael Parris and members of the national women’s Squash team.

In the second stanza, Dharry carried his record to 36 fights, 29 wins with six losses and a draw, with his 17th knock-out when he stopped Ramirez in two minutes and 59 seconds in round two.
Dharry, who beat Dexter Marques at Everest last April for the WBA Super Flyweight Gold title, unleashed a brutal array of punishing uppercuts to the midsection as Ramirez dropped to his knees but survived the eight count from Referee Eon Jardine.

Ranked number four by the WBA, Dharry connected with a crunching right hook; sending the Colombian sprawling to the canvas where he remained motionless for a few seconds.
Olympian Keevin Allicock in only his second ‘Pro’ fight was clinical in his destruction of debutant Dexter ‘Chucky’ Wray in the main supporting bout.
The lightning-fast 24-year-old Allicock fired punches in bunches in the first round as he hit Wray almost at will.

In the second round, Allicock seemed to be toying with Wray, who had in his corner former world-title contender Clive Atwell, who is home from Australia where he now lives.
Allicock, demonstrating tremendous hand speed, was too good for Wray who had beaten his brother at the amateur level before he (Wray) had taken a self-imposed exile from the sport.
Allicock forced ‘Chucky’ onto the ropes with some wicked body shots before ‘Chucky’ ‘chucked,’ when he did not answer the bell for the start of the third round,
In the other professional bouts, Kevin Isaacs beat Julian Clarke in their four-round Featherweight clash and Super Welterweight Emmanuel Sancho knocked out Anson Green in one minute and 17 seconds of the third round.

Kenisha Klass beat Destiny Humphrey in their girls’ match-up.
Guyana’s Ken Harvey defeated Barbadian Khumda Alexander and rated Guyanese Heavyweight Abiola Jackman beat Kamara Stuart of Trinidad and Tobago.

MVP Sports Brand Ambassador Keevin Allicock informed the fans that under three seats were coupons for $20,000 and presented lucky fans with vouchers for two cases of Smalta on behalf of his Sponsors.