PREPARATIONS are well on stream for this weekend’s Mark Thom Promotions’ `Rose Hall Town Showdown’ three-fight boxing card on Saturday at the Rose Hall Community Centre, Berbice. 

According to Thom, contracts have already been signed and the Berbice fighters are raring to go.
Thom told Chronicle Sport that the three Berbicians appearing on the card – Derick Richmond, Kishawn Simon and Richard Williamson – are all confident of winning their respective bouts against their more exposed Georgetown counterparts.
The feature bout brings together Williamson and Dilan Allicock in a 12-round contest for the vacant super bantamweight title of Guyana, while the main supporting bout will see Revlon Lake take on Simon in a eight-round junior welterweight contest.
For the opening bout Richmond will face Romeo Norville in a super middleweight contest over six rounds.
Richmond, who was born in Barbados but has been living in Berbice for most of his life, has so far fought six professional fights. He won three of those fights via knock-out, lost two with one being a knock-out and drew the other.
Richmond’s opponent (Norville) has four fights under his belt. He won one, lost two by the knock-out route and drew one.
Lake is the most experienced fighter on the card with 20 fights to his name. He won six with four of the victories via knock-out, he lost 12 of his bouts with eight of his losses being knock-outs and he drew two.
His opponent, Simon won two of his four fights with one being a knock-out win. He lost the other two.
For the feature bout, Williamson, who has to date fought 38 rounds in nine fights, won four of his contests, two by knock-out and lost five. Two losses were by knock-outs.
Williamson’s opponent (Allicock) on the other hand fought as a professional twice. He won one by knock-out and lost the other by knock-out.
Meanwhile, the card’s promoter, Thom, said he is very dissatisfied with the response he received from some of Guyana’s large companies who verbally gave their commitment to the sport but up to yesterday have not come on board.
He said despite this, his card will go on as he received financial and other support from business places in Berbice.
He said to date he has already expended $1.3M to stage the card and even if he does not make that back from ticket sales, it will not deter him from staging another card in the Ancient County.
He explained that he is a Berbician by birth, migrated to the United States in 1983, but has been coming home on a regular basis.
Thom would like to thank Luxury Flats Apartments, Inicom, August Beverages, Jeansville Hide Out, Maximum Sport, Leisure Inn, Mohamed Construction and Castle Hotel for their support.
The weigh-in of the boxers will be done on Friday evening.