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...]
Maderna Retains Lightweight Crown: Women’s Boxing – The Weekly Wrap Up
In Buenos Aires, Argentina, Maria Elena Maderna (12-8-3, 1 KO) successfully defended the WBC lightweight title, defeating Dalia Vasarhelyi (7-5, 1 KO) in three rounds and scoring her first TKO victory. With both the height and reach advantage, Maderna was in control from the start. The right hand was her money punch, and she was able to daze the challenger near the end of … [Read more...]
Women’s Boxing: The Double Header Wrap Up, part 1
My apologies for missing last week’s wrap up. Sparing you the details of the how’s and why’s, let’s recap last week’s women’s action over the weekend of August 2nd, 3rd, and 4th. In Mexico, WBC world super flyweight champion Zulina Munoz (39-1, 26 KO’s) made short work of Maribel Ramirez (8-6-2, 3 KO’s) stopping her in the first round. After an active round by both fighters, … [Read more...]
Under the Radar: Fights That Didn’t Make the Big Headlines- August 2nd, 2013
Jorge Paez Jr. (35-4-1, 21 KO’s) vs. Rodolfo Quintanilla (13-2-3, 10 KO’s), Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico El Maromerito isn’t the clown prince his father was, his record is littered with the standard career building opponents you’d expect to find on an up and comer but after 40 fights it looks like Paez Jr. is pretty comfortable where he’s at for the moment, though he … [Read more...]
Women’s Boxing: The Weekly Wrap Up
In the lone female title fight of the week, WBC lightweight champion Erica Anabella Farias (16-0, 9 KO’s) made a quick and successful defense of the title with a third round knockout of Liliana Palmera (21-10-3, 15 KO’s) in Buenos Aires, Argentina on Saturday night. The two first matched just over a year ago in February of 2012, with Palmera surrendering after the sixth … [Read more...]