There’s only one “first”, and Saturday night at TAP 1 in Copenhagen, Denmark, boxing’s “First Lady” Cecilia Braekhus (26-0, KO’s) made boxing history as the first female fighter to unify all four championship titles when she defeated Ivana Habazin (13-2, 5 KO’s) on Sauerland Promotions “Nordic Fight Night” card. The undefeated champ came into the fight with three world … [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
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...]
Oh, What a Knight! Women’s Boxing: The Weekly Wrap Up
Saturday night in Mexico City, California native and IBF flyweight champ Ava Knight made the most of her south bound road trip, and came home with the WBC Diamond flyweight championship. Knight (10-1-3, 5 KO’s), of Chico, California, met WBC flyweight champion Mariana “La Barbie” Juarez (35-6-3, 16 KO’s) in front of her hometown crowd at Palacio de Deporte in Mexico … [Read more...]