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With Christmas just around the
corner, three new World Boxing
Federation (WBF) Champions were
crowned over the weekend
(December 4 - December 6), as
action-packed WBF title fights
took place in Daegu, South Korea
and Pretoria, South Africa.
At the Seogu Public Sports
Center in Daegu on Sunday
December 6, undefeated Ki Hong
Min won the vacant WBF Asia
Pacific Super Welterweight
title, scoring a unanimous
decision over Thailand-based
Iranian Mohamadreza Hamze after
a close and competitive bout.
Judges Joong-Suk Kwon,
Gyreonghan Lee and Yeong Bok
Park scored the fight 97-95,
97-95 and 96-93 respectively in
favor of Min, who improved his
professional record to 6-0 (2).
Hamze drops to 7-7-1 (2).
Also on the big show promoted by
Steelland DaeaDaehan Promotions
in Daegu, Dan Bi Kim defeated
Thailand’s Maimuang Sitkhurusian
for the vacant WBF Womens
Intercontinental Light Flyweight
title, getting the verdict from
all three judges at ringside.
Man-Deuk Kwon scored the fight
99-89, Joong-Suk Kwon had it
99-92, while Yeong Bok Park saw
the bout 98-91 for the local
girl. A former world champion,
Kim is now 12-3-1 (4) since
turning pro in 2006. The very
game Sitkhurusian, who took the
fight on short notice, falls to
2-5-1 (0).
On Friday night, December 4, at
the Southern Sun Hotel in
Pretoria, South Africa,
compatriots Noni Tenge and Julie
Tshabalala battled it out for
the vacant World Boxing
Federation (WBF) Womens World
Super Welterweight title on a
show promoted by Mbali Zantsi´s
Showtime Boxing Promotions.
After ten entertaining rounds,
judges Sylvia Mokaila, Phumeza
Zinakile and
Siya Vabaza had Tenge winning by scores of
99-91, 98-93 and 98-92.
Now a four-time, two-division
world champion, Tenge improved
her impressive professional
record to 15-1-1 (10), while
former South African national
Middleweight ruler Tshabalala
comes up short in her second
world title attempt and drops to
5-3-2 (1).
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