Clara Lescurat Wins in Australia, Marlen vs La Chucky and More News By David A. Avila Argentina’s Clara Lescurat retained the WBA super flyweight world title by unanimous decision over Australia’s Linn Sandstrom on Wednesday in Sydney. It’s not easy to win in another country. Despite traveling across the globe Lescurat (11-0, 4 Kos) […]
Denmark’s Dina Thorslund and Argentina’s Clara Lescurat in Title Fights and More News By David A. Avila Two world title fights of significance take place in different continents as Denmark’s Dina Thorslund defends two bantamweight titles and Clara Lescurat guards a super flyweight title this week in Argentina. Both fights should be telling. Thorslund […]
Alycia Baumgardner Seeks to Avenge only Loss and More News By David A. Avila (Photo by Melina Pizano) Alycia Baumgardner, the undisputed super featherweight champ, finally gets an opportunity to avenge the only blemish of her professional career. Here comes Christina Linardatou. Baumgardner (14-1, 7 Kos) looks to avenge the only pro defeat that […]
America’s Marlen Esparza Battles Argentina ‘s Gabriela Alaniz to Unify Flyweight Titles (Photo by Al Applerose) By David A. Avila In a quest to become undisputed flyweight world champion Marlen Esparza must past through dangerous punching Gabriela “Chucky” Alaniz of Argentina. It’s yet another South American fighter but Alaniz is one of the truly hard-punching […]
Japan’s Tsunami Tenkai is Set, IFL Fights in L.A. and More News By David A. Avila Former world champion Tsunami Tenkai returns to the ring this week. Tenkai is one of the last great fighters of her generation. Last month the great Naoko Fujioka retired from boxing and now Tenkai remains as one of […]
Marlen Esparza Wins in Texas, Sulem in California and Sandy Ryan in England and More News By David A. Avila Marlen Esparza continued to put a stranglehold on the flyweight world title with another solid performance in defeating the very strong but unknown challenger from Venezuela Eva Guzman. Now that the mandatory has been […]
Super Flyweights Title Fights in Japan and Mexico and more fight news By David A. Avila Two of the greatest fighting countries in the world headline this week’s best action. Japan stages WBO super flyweight titlist Miyo “Mushashi” Yoshida defending against Tomoko Okuda, while Mexico pits WBC super flyweight titlist Guadalupe Martinez against Lourdes […]