ALA Boy Z 'The Dream' Gorres proved he is ready to rumble during a public workout at the ALA Gym in Banilad last Thursday.

Gorres is slated to face Australia's Vic Darchinyan in a 12-round IBF eliminator on February 2 at the Waterfront Cebu City Hotel.

Gorres sparred three rounds each against lightweight Glen Masicampo and bantamweight Gil Millegen and wowed the crowd at the jampacked ALA Gym as he repeatedly tagged the slower Masicampo with straight lefts and sharp counters and displayed his defensive prowess against the rampaging Millegen.

?We're 90% ready,? declared Gorres' trainer Edito Villamor who also informed that Gorres had already logged a hundred rounds in sparring and will do eigtheen more rounds as Gorres tapers off in the next two weeks.

?He's ready to take on Darchinyan,? ALA Gym boss Antonio L. Aldeguer said. ?I have never seen Gorres so sharp and so confident.?

The Gorres-Darchinayan fight is for the IBF super flyweight title eliminator where the winner will challenge world champion Dimitri Kirilov of Russia.

Meanwhile, Aldeguer informed that the tickets of the highly-anticipated match were selling briskly and not that many tickets were left for the 3,000-capacity Waterfront Hotel Grand Ballroom.

Dubbed as 'Now or Never', the event will be covered by Solar Sports to be telecast in the Philippines and Australia and by live Internet streaming the rest of the world. Correspondent Salven Lagumbay and Dong Secuya