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On Saturday August 24 German
female boxing icon Ina Menzer
will enter her farewell-fight
when she takes on fellow former
world champion Goda Dailydaite
for the World Boxing Federation
(WBF) Womens World Featherweight
Interim title at the Warsteiner
Hockeypark in hometown
Moenchengladbach.
The WBF World championship main
event, and part of an
interesting undercard featuring
former world champions Vitali
Tajbert and Dmitri sartison,
will be aired live to millions
of viewers by Europe’s biggest
sports broadcaster Eurosport.
Still only 32 years old, Menzer,
30-1 (11), made her pro debut in
2004 and won her first world
championship the following year.
Over the course of the next five
years she made an astonishing
fifteen (!) successful defenses,
and even added two more world
titles to her collection, before
finally losing a decision to
Canadian Jeannine Garside in
July 2010.
Menzer has since put together a
four-fight winning streak, and
is now aiming to go out in a
blaze of glory by winning her
fourth world championship
against the undefeated
Dailydaite, 8-0 (2). But, while
she is full of admiration for
her opponent, Dailydaite is
certain she will be able to
defeat the much more experienced
Menzer:
“Ina Menzer is a role model for
me. I watched most of her fights
on TV”, Dailydaite recently told
German media. “But I feel that I
have a good chance to win on
Saturday, and I don’t have the
same kind of pressure on me that
Ina has. Mentally I am much more
free, and I am confident I can
win.”
From Dortmund, Dailydaite is
just over three years into her
professional career, and has
done well to put herself in
position for a German
Super-Fight such as this one. In
April 2012 she won the vacant
WBF World Featherweight title
against Arleta Krausova from the
Czech Republic, a title she
never lost in the ring.
Now she has a chance to become a
two-time WBF Champion, and it is
no secret how she plans to go
about the difficult task of
defeating her role model:
“Technically we are both very
good, but I see my advantage as
being in conditioning. I am
younger, in top shape, and in
the tenth round I will be able
to be just as active as in the
first round”, said Dailydaite,
who has been in training camp
for ten weeks with three
sessions a day.
It remains to be seen if her
tough preparations will be
enough to win and emerge as a
new German boxing superstar, or
if the accomplished and
established superstar, Menzer,
will be able to ride into the
sunset a world champion again.
“Das Heimspiel”, the Ina Menzer
vs. Goda Dailydaite WBF Womens
World Featherweight Interim
title fight, will be promoted by
Team Menzer.
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