‘Pure Gold’ regrouping to contend for junior welterweight title

Iwan Azore

By Emmerson Campbell

National welterweight champion Iwan ‘Pure Gold’ Azore says he plans to regroup and return to the ring to fight at the junior welterweight level, after suffering a ninth-round knockout by Simeon ‘Candy Man’ Hardy in their WBC CABOFE welterweight title bout on Friday.

When Stabroek Sport caught up with Azore yesterday he disclosed that his immediate plan is to campaign at junior welterweight category where he thinks he would be a bigger challenge to this opponents. “I would not be fighting back at welterweight again. I doubt whether I will be fighting in that division again, I walk around with 150 pounds,