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After the World Boxing
Federation (WBF) launched a
cooperation with the WIBF and
GBU in March, and merged the
three championships into the
most prestigious title in female
boxing, Austrian Eva Voraberger
is set to defend the Unified
Womens World Super Flyweight
title on Saturday May 30.
Voraberger, who captured the WBF
and WIBF titles in June 2014 and
made a successful defense last
November, will face undefeated
Serbian Nina Stojanovic at the
Reinhold Heidinger Sporthalle in
Leibnitz, on a show promoted by
Boxteam Vienna.
After losing two of her first
three professional fights back
in 2008 and 2009, 25-year-old
Voraberger has won eighteen of
her last nineteen bouts, only
coming up short in a 2013
challenge for the WBF world
title, and currently has an
impressive record of 19-3 (9).
In her most recent outing,
Voraberger suffered a
third-round knock-down and a
dislocated jaw but showed true
warrior spirit to fight back
hard and retain the WBF and WIBF
titles by split decision against
Hungarian Renata Domsodi. That
performance contributed to her
being awarded WBF 2014 Female
Fighter of The Year honors.
Born in Graz but living in and
fighting out of Vienna, Austria,
Voraberger must be considered
the favorite against Stojanovic
(23), but the Serbian is
reportedly determined to improve
on her 7-0 (3) ledger, and is
confident that she can gatecrash
the scene by upsetting the
champion in her home-country.
With the Voraberger vs.
Stojanovic Unified Womens World
title fight as the headliner,
the undercard of the show will
feature a mix of local boxers in
non-title bouts and Muay Thai
and K1 fights, and a sizable
crowd is expected to turn up for
an evening of exiting combat
sports action.
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