In her third bout of the year, “La Princesa Azteca” Jackie Nava (31-4-3, 13 KO’s) successfully defended the WBC and WBA super bantamweight titles in Sonora, Mexico. Nava dealt the first career defeat to Sayda Mosquera (7-1-1, 5 KO’s), who went up in weight for the contest and is the current WBC Latino bantamweight title-holder. It was a highly entertaining fight, … [Read more...]
Fujioka Retains WBA Title: Women’s Boxing – The Weekly Wrap Up
Monday night at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan Naoko Fujioka (12-0, 6 KO’s) retained both her undefeated record and the WBA super flyweight championship when she comfortably out-pointed Tomoko Kawanishi (9-2, 4 KO’s) over 10 rounds. Fujioka has held a title most of her young career; in her fourth pro outing she won the OPBF female minimum-weight title followed two bouts … [Read more...]
Women’s Boxing: The Weekly Wrap Up
In Brooklyn, at the Aviator Sports Complex, fan favorite Heather “The Heat” Hardy (7-0, 2 KO’s) scored her second straight win by stoppage, defeating Ana Laura Gomez (4-4) in the second round to win the vacant UBF International super bantamweight title. The bout was a scheduled eight round co-feature to the “Battle of Brooklyn” 10 rounder between Gabriel Bracero and Dmitry … [Read more...]
Women’s Boxing: The Weekly Wrap Up
Apologies for the delay this week, circumstances beyond this writers control prevented an earlier posting of this weeks women’s news. Anyway… It was a relatively light week for the females. In Mexico, former IBF and WBC flyweight title holder Arely Mucino (18-2-1, 10 KO’s) made short work of Olga Julio (14-14-1, 9 KO’s) stopping her in the second round. Julio did her best … [Read more...]
Women’s Boxing: The Weekly Wrap Up
American flyweight Melissa McMorrow (9-3-3, 1 KO) made the trek to Germany to defend the WBO and WIBF titles against Nadia Raoui (15-2-1, 3 KO's) at the GETEC Arena. This was McMorrow's second defense of the titles she won last May, when she scored an upset decision in Germany over Susi Kentikian. Raoui was coming in on a four fight win streak, and is the current holder of the … [Read more...]