As reported Saturday night by The Boxing Tribune, world welterweight champion Cecilia Braekhus (27-0, 7 KO’s) retained the WBA, WBO, WBC, and IBF titles with a dominant performance over IBO and GBC title-holder Jennifer Retzke (15-2-1, 9 KO’s) in Denmark. During the contest, Braekhus injured her right foot and it’s being reported that she’ll be laid up for at least a … [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...]
Women’s Boxing: The Weekly Wrap Up
In Austria, world flyweight champion Eva Vorabarger (18-3, 9 KO’s) made the jump to the super flyweight division and brought home two world title belts; the vacant WIBF and WBF championships were both up for grabs in the bout between Voraberger and Nonggift Onesongchaigym (6-2-1, 1 KO). The new champ, who took a 10 round unanimous decision, had won the WIBF and WBF … [Read more...]
Juarez Edges McMorrow: Women’s Boxing – The Weekly Wrap Up
In an entertaining match up south of the border, WBC International super flyweight champion Mariana “La Barbie” Juarez (39-7-3, 16 KO’s) and WBO world flyweight champion Melissa McMorrow (9-4-3, 1 KO) put on an entertaining 10 round bout at Gimnasio Miguel Hidalgo, in Puebla, Mexico with Juarez’s title on the line. McMorrow, of San Francisco, California gave a good account … [Read more...]
Women’s Boxing: The Weekly Wrap Up
WBO bantamweight champion Carolina Duer (16-3-1, 5 KOs) extended her unbeaten streak to 15 when she scored a unanimous decision win over Estrella Valverde (7-4-1, 1 KO) in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It was the first title defense for the two time world champion, who also held the WBO super flyweight title which she defended six times in 2011-2012. Early in her pro career, Duer … [Read more...]