Female Fight News Oct. 22, 2018 HBO and more

By David A. Avila

It’s beginning to be a habit.

Female prizefighting was showcased on a major fight card once again this past weekend and it continues its upward trajectory this week too. The beat goes on.

The Katie Taylor parade rolled into Boston where the champion from Ireland performed against Cindy Serrano in a 10 round performance for a worldwide audience via the fairly new streaming company DAZN.

Streaming may not be the media choice of the old guard that follow men’s boxing, but for female prizefighting its been a boon. A couple of weeks ago DAZN also streamed the world title fight between new champion Jessica McCaskill and Erica Farias.

More streamed female prize fights are coming with Golden Boy Promotions signing a multi-year agreement with DAZN, it will surely include its three female fighters Seniesa Estrada, Marlen Esparza and Maricela Cornejo.

As the old form of coverage seems to be drying up with HBO dropping boxing, a new window has opened in the form of streaming.

Speaking of HBO, this week Heather Hardy meets Shelly Vincent in a rematch on Saturday at Madison Square Garden. The DiBella Entertainment fight card will be shown on HBO live.

Hardy loves being a part of history.

“I wasn’t interested in entertaining a rematch unless it was televised,” said Hardy by telephone. “Anyone who followed my career knows that every single fight I’m for getting fights televised.”

Anyone who saw the first fight on rival network Fox Sports remembers that their first clash was the Fight of the Year in the summer of 2016. Expect more of the same between these two featherweight warriors.

Look for more on Hardy vs. Vincent later this week on this site.

Bantamweights

In Mexico a couple of marquee fights take place.

First, the queen of Mexican boxing Mariana “Barby” Juarez defends the WBC bantamweight world title against former champion Susie Ramadan of Australia on Saturday Oct. 27. The battle takes place in Mexico City.

Ramadan has only two losses in her career and both occurred in Mexico. But the two-time world champion is more than willing to return citing her experience.

“When you fight abroad you learn a lot and it has been a great experience for me which helps me prepare well for this one,” said Ramadan who had world titles bout in 2014 against Yazmin Rivas in Gomez Palacio, Mexico and against Rivas earlier in 2011 at Chetumal, Mexico.

She will be fighting Juarez on Televisa a nationally televised network available in North America. It’s not known if it will be televised or streamed in Australia.

Look for more on this fight later this week on this site.

Poland

An important world title clash takes place in Lubin, Poland as Ewa Brodnicka defends the WBO super featherweight world title against South Africa’s Nozipho Bell. Brodnicka has a big test in front of her. But she has a lot of fans in Poland and at 34 years old she’s taking advantage of her recent success and looking expand her hold. There are plenty of talented super featherweights around the world.

 

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Argentina

Iara Cortes (6-2) was the winner by decision after four rounds versus Alejandra Morales (2-20-3) on Saturday Oct. 20. The super featherweight fight was held in Buenos Aires.

Marcela Acuna (48-7-1) won by split decision after 10 rounds versus Mayerlin Rivas (15-4-2) on Friday Oct. 19. The IBF super bantamweight title fight was held at Salta. Also, Brenda Carabajal (15-4-1) beat Paola Ibarra (5-7) by decision after six rounds.

On Friday Oct. 26, bantamweights Roxana Bermudez (0-0) and Antonella Molina (0-0) meet in a four round bout at Coronda.

 

Austria

Eva Voraberger (24-5) beat Argentina’s Luna Torroba (12-9-2) by decision after 10 rounds on Saturday Oct. 20. The interim WBC bantamweight title fight took place in Vienna.

 

Belgium

On Saturday Oct. 27, lightweights Florence De Coster (2-0) and Nina Pavlovic (0-1-1) meet in a six round contest in Brugge.

 

Bulgaria

On Saturday Oct. 27, middleweights Savannah Marshall (3-0) and Yanina Orozco (4-0) meet in a 10 round clash at Sofia. Marshall, 27, fights out of the United Kingdom and Orozco, 29, lives in Argentina.

 

Canada

Kylie Fallies (2-0) stopped Kamilla Boka (1-1) in the second round on Saturday Oct. 20. The lightweight fight was held in Hamilton, Ontario.

 

Germany

On Saturday Oct. 27, lightweights Ramona Kuehne (27-1) and Sylwia Maksym (2-4) meet in an eight round fight at Stadhalle. Thirty-eight year old Kuehne is the WBO super featherweight titlist. This is a nontitle fight.

 

Japan

Airi Motoki (1-0) knocked out Hinata Mizumoto (0-2) in the third round on Monday Oct. 22. The featherweight bout took place in Tokyo.

On Sunday Oct. 28, light flyweights Smile Nagisa (1-1) and Yuko Ito (1-0) meet in four three-minute rounds at Yamaguchi.

 

Mexico

Alondra Prado (2-2-1) defeated Valeria Perez (10-5) by majority decision after eight rounds on Saturday Oct. 20. The super flyweight match took place at Mexico City and was part of an all-female boxing card.

On Saturday Oct. 27, bantamweights Mariana Juarez (50-9-4) and Susie Ramadan (27-2) meet in a 10 round clash for the WBC world title at Mexico City. The champion Juarez, 38, is making the sixth defense of the title. The challenger Ramadan, 39, hails from Australia and is a former WBA bantamweight world champion. Her only losses were to Mexico’s Yazmin Rivas.

 

Norway

Ingrid Egner (2-0) was the winner by unanimous decision after six rounds versus Valgerdur Gudstensdottir (3-2) on Saturday Oct. 20. The super featherweight match took place at Skien.

 

Poland

On Friday Oct. 26, super featherweights Ewa Brodnicka (15-0) and Nozipho Bell (8-1-1) meet in a 10 round clash for Brodnicka’s WBO world title at Lublin. For 34-year-old Brodnicka it’s her first defense of the title since winning it last April. The challenger Bell is from South Africa.

On Saturday Oct. 27, featherweights Dorota Norek (2-0) and Wiktoria Sadej (0-0) meet in a four round fight at Wieliczka.

 

Serbia

Snezana Siljkovic (1-0) defeated Sandra Maran (0-1) on Saturday Oct. 20. The flyweight contest took place at Belgrade.

 

South Africa

Nothuthuzele Chitani (3-0) beat Tshepang Majola (1-4) by decision after four rounds on Saturday Oct. 20. The light flyweight fight took place at Klerksdorp. Also, Winnie Sithole (1-0) defeated Pinky Singh (0-1) in a light flyweight bout.

 

Spain

On Saturday Oct. 27, flyweights Joana Suarez (3-0) and Catalina Diaz (3-2) meet in a six round contest at Gallarta.

 

Switzerland

On Saturday Oct.27, super flyweights Maribel Ramirez (12-9-2) and Aniya Seki (34-3-2) meet in a 12 round contest for the WBA world title at Bern.

 

Thailand

Female fights dominated a boxing card as Kannika Bangnara (1-0) knocked out Manatsavee Srithongkham (0-1) in the second round. The minimum weight fight was held at Bangkok. Other winners were Anchalee Mankong (2-3) beat Jitramas Manadee (0-1); Suphansa Phoong (1-0) beat Areeya Sahot (0-2); Watcharin Khodam (1-0) beat Sunisa Mangsuk (0-2); Ketmanee Chasing (1-0) beat Phennapha Subin (0-1); and Tassana Paladsrighuoy (1-4) defeated Apinya Srinuan (0-2).

 

USA

Katie Taylor (11-0) was the winner by unanimous decision over Cindy Serrano (27-6-3) on Saturday Oct. 20. The WBA, IBF lightweight title fight took place at Boston, Mass. It was Taylor’s fourth defense of the WBA title and second for the IBF title.

Marcia Agripino (3-1-1) won by majority decision after six rounds against Stephanie Essensa (3-2-1) on Saturday Oct. 20. The bantamweight fight was held at Mashantucket, Conn.

Kali Reis (15-7-1) knocked out Szilvia Szabados (18-13) in the six round on Thursday Oct. 18. The welterweight match was held in Washington D.C.

On Saturday Oct.27, featherweights Heather Hardy (21-0) and Shelly Vincent (23-1) meet in a 10 round clash for the vacant WBO featherweight world title at New York City. The match will be shown on HBO.

On Saturday Oct. 27, featherweights Ayanna Vasquez (4-0-1) and Iranda Torres (11-3-1) meet in an eight round fight at San Antonio, Texas. Also, featherweights Briana Gonzalez (3-1-2) and Cristina Fuentes (9-9-6) meet in an eight round fight. Plus, featherweights Brittany Ordonez (2-2) and Leesa Daniels (1-3) meet in a four round bout.