On April 5, CABOFE flyweight champion, Dexter ‘De Kid’ Marques will make a most welcome return to the ring when he makes the first defence of his title against Jamaican, Rudolph ‘Cutting Edge’ Hedge.
Nostalgia will be thick and heavy as the punching bags at his training base when Marques returns to the ornate splendour
of the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall where he fought no fewer than eight times on his way to capturing the regional title last February.
Marques 13(5)-2(2)-0, has been out of the ring since unanimously defeating Richard Williamson last October in a non-title slugfest and will be eager to continue his winning streak in his first defence of the belt.
The Maques/Hedge championship bout is scheduled to be the headliner of the five-fight pro card dubbed ‘Jamaican Invasion’.
Hedge, 7(2)-1-3 is no slouch with the glove since he took CABOFE bantamweight champion, Elton ‘The Bully’ Dharry to the distance in his last ring appearance in February of last year, something Marques failed to do. Dharry stopped Marques in the seventh round when the pair matched gloves in May 2011.
Both Marques and Hedge will be looking to pad their records and a punch filled bout is anticipated.
According to officials of the Guyana Boxing Board of Control (GBBC) local pugilists, Quincy Gomes (lightweight), Romeo Norville (super middleweight) and Mark Austin (light middleweight) will oppose three of Hedge’s countrymen. Gomes will take on Toriano Nicholas, Norville will square off against Kemehl Russell while Austin will face Devon Moncrieff.
The Gomes/ Nicholas and Orville/Russell fights are each scheduled for four rounds while the Austin/ Moncrieff bout is scheduled for eight.
Prior to those international fights, Williamson will lace it up against David Thomas in a four-round super lightweight contest.
The bouts will become official when the contracts are signed on Tuesday at the headquarters of the GBBC on the Avenue of the Republic.
