National bantamweight champion Dexter Marques believes Leon ‘Hurry-Up’ Moore is all mouth and no action but he plans to settle the score when the two meet tomorrow at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall on the main supporting bout of the S and S Promotions card dubbed ‘The Final Execution’.
Outside of the ring Marques and Moore are friends but inside the squared
circle they will definitely be foes since Marques made it clear during his interview with Stabroek Sport yesterday that when the gloves are on, the friendship is over.
Moore is at present the World Boxing Council (WBC) Caribbean Boxing Federation (CABOFE) and NABA bantamweight champion and is also rated ninth by the WBC in the world. His record stands at 25 fights with 23 wins, 21 of which came by way of knockouts, and two losses.
Interestingly, Moore once held the title after he stopped Mark Dummett in 2004 at the Mackenzie Sports Club ground in Linden but vacated it in 2007 when he secured his CABOFE title with a fifth round TKO over Linden Arthur in Barbados.
It was in that same year that Marques took the title at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall by beating Orlan‘Pocket Rocket’ Rogers with a 11th round technical knockout (TKO).
Marques had enjoyed a very good career as an amateur and so far he has only had four fights since turning pro in March of 2007 with an immaculate record.
“You know as a young fighter coming up I always admire Moore, but I always tell myself that I am better than him,” Marques said.
And it was in the same breath he stated that despite Moore having a better record than him, it doesn’t mean that he is a better fighter.
“You know people been saying that because he is rated number nine in the world and because he has more fights than me he is a better fighter, he is not but I would say this….come Saturday night, he would have to really show people how good he is cause I coming really hard for this one,” the national champion said.
Marques trains at the Forgotten Youth Foundation gym in Albouystown under the guidance of Seibert Blake who also trains Lennox ‘Too Sharp’ Allen and he says training has been coming along quite smoothly.
“I’ve been training two times a day and so far things have been going along OK….I’m in good shape, ready for the fight on Saturday, I just hope that he (Moore) is ready and has no excuses when he loses.”
The fight, Moore stated previously, is being seen as a step back for him because at this moment he should be focusing on clinching a world title deal but he has taken the fight to put a stop to the torment from Marques.
Ever since 2007 Marques has been calling on Moore to step into the ring with him but was ignored, but things escalated within the past couple of months.
However thanks to S and S Promotions they will finally have to touch gloves and with more than just the national bantamweight title on the line, this is certainly building up to be a brawl.
