‘Pure Gold’ betting on taking WBC CABOFE welterweight title

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Iwan `Pure Gold’ Azore (right) going through a pad session with his coach Carl Franklin.
Iwan `Pure Gold’ Azore (right) going through a pad session with his coach Carl Franklin.

By Emmerson Campbell

Guyana’s welterweight champion, Iwan ‘Pure Gold’ Azore is brimming with confidence ahead of his bout with Simeon ‘Candy Man’ Hardy for the vacant World Boxing Council’s (WBC) CABOFE welterweight title on January 27. The fight which will be staged at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall will headline the 20th edition of the Guyana Boxing Board of Control (GBBC) Guyana Fight Night Pro Am card.

Stabroek Sport caught up with the Trinidad and Tobago-based south paw at his training base at the Five Star Boxing Gym in Golden Grove,