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Former undefeated French and
European Featherweight Champion
Gaelle Amand, is ready to take
her career to the next level on
Saturday night (November 30),
when she fights for the vacant
World Boxing Federation (WBF)
Womens World Featherweight
title.
Amand, 10-0 (1), will take on
Bosnia & Herzegovina’s former
world champion Irma Balijagic
Adler, 14-4 (7), at the Gymnase
des Roulants in her hometown
Cergy, and can very likely look
forward to her sternest
challenge so far.
Turning pro in 2010, 30-year-old
Amand won both the French
national and the European title
in 2012, and never lost any of
those championships in the ring.
However, despite having
accomplished a lot in only ten
pro bouts, she can’t compare
herself to Adler when it comes
to experience.
Now 31 years of age, Adler
entered the pro ranks in 2007
and won the Bosnia & Herzegovina
national title that same year in
only her fourth bout. In 2008
she captured a world title by
impressively defeating tough and
accomplished Canadian Jeannine
Garside.
In 2010 Adler lost for the first
time when she dropped a decision
to Ramona Kuehne in Germany in a
challenge for the WBF World
Super Featherweight title. She
has since come up short in two
more world
championship-challenges, but
also captured a minor title this
past January.
The Gaelle Amand vs. Irma
Balijagic Adler WBF Womens World
Featherweight title fight will
be promoted by Rahilou Cergy
Boxe, and can be watched live
on-line here:
http://its-boxen.com/live-stream-2/.
The winner of the fight is
obligated to next fight WBF
Champion In Recess Shannon
O'Connell from Australia.
On the same night at the Olympic
Sports Complex in Grozny,
Russia, WBF Womens World Super
Middleweight Champion Nikki
Adler (no relation to Irma),
will be making her first title
defense in a rematch with
Latvian Zane Brige, the same
opponent she won the title from
last May.
26-year-old Adler, born in
Augsburg, Germany but now
residing in Berlin, brings a
fine undefeated record of 10-0
(6), while Brige (28) holds a
deceiving 2-3-1 (1) ledger. A
former Latvian and Baltic
Champion, the Riga-fighter has
proven her class by going the
distance with Adler in May, but
also in 2011 when they were both
2-0 prospects.
Having fought her first nine
professional bouts in Germany,
this will be the second straight
Russian appearance for Adler
(and Brige), as she won the WBF
title on a show in Volgodonsk
staged by SKV Boxing, who is
also promoting the rematch.
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