Rhode Island’s Shelly Vincent (14-0, 1 KO) remained undefeated this past Friday, retaining her UBF super bantamweight title and winning the vacant IBF strap, taking a unanimous 10 round decision over Christina Ruiz (7-8-3, 4 KO’s) of San Antonio, Texas. It was Vincent’s first defense of the UBF belt, facing an IFBA bantamweight champ in Ruiz, who’s faced numerous world class … [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...]
Women’s Boxing: The Weekly Wrap Up
Big upset in Japan this week. Tuesday night in Tokyo, Anabel Ortiz (12-3, 2 KO’s) dealt Etsuko Tada (12-1-2, 2 KO’s) her first defeat and won the WBA minimum weight title in the process. Ortiz, a former WBC minimum weight titlist and Mexico light flyweight champ, lost her last two world title bouts when she dropped the WBC minimum weight belt to Naoko Fujioka in 2011, and … [Read more...]
Women’s Boxing: The Weekly Wrap Up
Women’s action this weekend was headlined by a triple-header of title bouts in Tokyo, Japan on Sunday night. Long reigning champion Momo Koseki (15-2-1, 3 KO’s) successfully defended the WBC atom weight title for the 10th time, defeating Maria del Rufugio Cruz (9-6, 0 KO) by ten round decision. Scores of the bout were 100-90 across the board. Koseki, who had a losing … [Read more...]