World Champions Jenifer Han (14-3-1, 1 KO) and Anabel Ortiz (20-3, 3 KO’s) both had successful outings this past weekend, defending their world titles on separate cards. At Malecon Turistico in Sonora, Mexico, Ortiz extender her second world title reign with a wide unanimous decision over Katia Gutierrez (19-7, 4 KO’s) to retain the WBA minimum weight belt in her sixth … [Read more...]
A Busy Week for the Ladies: Women’s Boxing – The Weekly Wrap Up
It was a big week for the ladies, plenty of big fights cover, so away we go… Germany’s “Killer Queen”, Susi Kentikian (34-2, 17 KO’s) successfully defended her WBA flyweight championship for the third time in Stuttgart, Germany, scoring a 10 round unanimous decision over Japanese flyweight Naoko Fujioka (12-1, 6 KO’s) at the Porsche Arena, dealing Fujioka her first loss. … [Read more...]
Win, Lose, Draw…or None of the Above: Women’s Boxing – The Weekly Wrap Up
WBF light middleweight title champion Anne Sophie Mathis (27-4, 23 KO’s) put her title on the line Saturday night at the Anhalt Arena in Dessau, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany, squaring off against WBF and WBO middleweight champion Christina Hammer (18-0, 8 KO’s) with the vacant WBO light middleweight title also up for grabs. The card was headlined by Robert Stieglitz’s WBO … [Read more...]
Casalinuovo Remains Perfect: Women’s Boxing – The Weekly Wrap Up
Light middleweight Paola Gabriela Casalinuovo (11-0, 11 KO’s) remained undefeated and kept her perfect knockout ratio in tact with a seventh round stoppage of Yajaira Hernandez (15-6, 3 KO’s) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, winning the vacant IBF light middleweight title. Hernandez scored a knockdown in the sixth round, but Casalinuovo returned the favor three times, dropping her … [Read more...]
Women’s Boxing: The Weekly Wrap Up
A double header in Japan last Thursday, as WBC atom weight champion Momo Koseki (17-2-1, 4 KO’s) defeated Nora Cardoza (8-5-2, 4 KO’s) via 10 round decision to retain the world title. Koseki has been the reigning titlist since August of 2008, when she stopped Winyu Paradorn Gym in two rounds to win the belt. Since then she’s made 11 successful defenses, this bout included, with … [Read more...]