Dharry, Marques register contrasting wins ‘Return of the Scorpions’ boxing card well supported

was caught with good rights; but Roland would survive a fight in which there were very few periods of entertainment

With the fans on their feet and pulsating reggae music emanating from the speakers, the fourth round began and Marques few punches in the three rounds. Abiola, on the other hand, was all over Boodram with flurries of powerful shots to body and head, but she just could not find the knock-out against the exhausted “Trini.”

With the win, Marques moves his record to 21 bouts, 18 wins and 3 losses.

In the lone women’s bout on the professional card, Superflyweight Natalya Delgado, produced an exhibition of excellent boxing and clean punching in her victory over Venezuelan Estefania Matute over six rounds.

This bout had the raucous capacity crowd on their feet with the Quacy Craig Sound System blaring Spanish music in-between rounds as the boxers showed how far ahead Central, Latin and South America’s female boxing is from the Caribbean.

A minute’s silence was observed for the Madhia fire victims before the first bell, while Abiola Jackman and 13-yearold Keyon Britten from VBG received awards for being the best Junior boy and best female respectively in the amateur division.

By Sean Devers

ELTON Dharry and Dexter

‘the Kid’ Marques registered contrasting victories when the curtain came down on the well supported Bris-O Promotions

‘Return of the Scorpion’ ProAm Boxing Card just after 1: AM on Sunday morning at the National Gymnasium.

Darry, the 37-year-old USAbased Guyanese Bantamweight pugilist, improved his professional record to 34 bouts, 27 wins and a draw, when he registered a less than convincing unanimous win over Colombian Ramos Roland in the main bout over eight rounds.

The Colombian kept dancing out of range and demonstrated good evasive tactics to last the full eight rounds as Dharry failed to use his right hand enough against the south paw Roland, in a fight which lacked any real consistent, aggressive intent from both boxers.

The first four rounds saw few ‘big’ punches as the fighters were content to trade pawing jabs while in the third round Roland was caught with a couple of body shots, but Dharry never went in for the kill.

In the fifth round Dharry came out in aggressive mode and caught his man with a few good rights to the mid-section as Roland was backed up on the ropes before Dharry scored to the head in the dying stages of the round.

In the sixth round Dharry threw more shots to Roland’s body, but the Colombian demonstrated good defence and moved around the ring well, making Dharry miss his right hooks. Both boxers were warned for clashing of heads.

Dharry kept moving forward, Roland ‘tied him up’ but for the fans. followed up a left jab with a brutal right cross to send Carrillo to the canvas in a minute and three seconds into the round. Marques jumped on top ropes to acknowledge his screaming fans in the stands.

Dharry used this fight as a warm-up for his crack at the WCB Silver Belt, which is set for Everest on June 15.

Meanwhile, in the main supporting bout, Marques, who turns 38 later this month, was clinical in his destruction of Luis Carrillo in their Super Bantamweight fight scheduled for eight rounds.

The “fast and furious” Marques looked in prime condition and never allowed Carrillo to settle into a rhythm.

Round two saw the Guyanese pepperng his opponent with nice combos to his body and head and in the third stanza, the Colombian was caught with a wicked right to his head, but he countered with some good shots of his own.

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In the female amateur international bout there were mixed fortunes for the Jackman siblings with little sister Abiola beating her Trini opponent LeeAnn Boodram, while Alisha lost to Jamaican Britney McFarlane, who avenged her loss to Alisa in Trinidad just before the global pandemic struck.

Alisha was outboxed and outpunched by the vastly improved lass from Reggae Country as the Guyanese threw very

In the other results in the professional fights, Anthony Augustin was knocked out in the first round by the 286-pound Bajan Emmanuel Anderson, who was making his pro debut on the back of 208 amateur bouts, while Terrence Adams lost to Ricardo Blackman from Barbados

In results of the other amateur bouts; Aleojoundre Young lost to VGB stable mate Gladstone Winter, Britton beat Curtis McDonald (RHJ) and Kenroy Hamilton (RHJ) defeated Joel Hinds (VBG)