There will be no women but, more importantly, no pros fighting on Saturday night ? with a lack of finances largely to blame.

There is no shortage of potential opponents for the Island?s only professional, Teresa Perozzi, but the prohibitive costs of flying them in means the 30-year-old has been robbed of ring time for the second time in three months.

Perozzi was due to take on Trinidadian Schroller Carrington in December at the Ruth Seaton James Centre but that bout spectacularly fell through and an appearance at Fight Night is now also off the cards.

Even though the Canadian and New York fighters lined up instead of the Caribbean opponent would have been cheaper to fly in, the thousands of dollars required were still beyond Fight Night organisers who are virtually guaranteed a sell-out crowd anyway just with the amateur match-ups.

But Perozzi, who had begun her serious pre-fight training for what should have been her first pro bout on the Island, has taken the knock-back well ? and is all the more determined to get a pro card together for later in the year.

?The cost of bringing one of the girls in would have been too high,? said Perozzi, whose own elevation to the pro fight game began after an impromptu Fight Night appearance.

?If we had more time we would have been able to raise sponsorship but it is tough to do that while you are concentrating on training, being a mother and running a business.

?I also don?t feel too comfortable going around asking for money when I have yet to really prove myself here ? that is how I feel.?

Perozzi is now putting together a committee to organise pro fights for her on the Island, with the aim to organise three or four bouts a year.

She would also like to travel abroad, as she has done in the past, for at least one bout a year although putting on contests in Bermuda would remain her main goal.

Fight Night promoter Nir Sadeh added there were a number of complications in staging a pro fight on the same card as the amateur bouts, with a specialist referee having to be flown in as well as a forced intermission being put in and a number of other ?complicating factors? to satisfy the sport?s regional and national governing bodies.