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Reigning two-weight World Boxing
Federation (WBF) Womens World
Champion Ema Kozin will make her
first defense of the WBF World
Super Middleweight title on
Sunday October 6 at the Arena
Stozice in her home-town of
Ljubljana, Slovenia.
20-year-old Kozin, nicknamed
“The Princess”, won the WBF
World Super Middleweight crown
last March, when she out-boxed
Sanna Turunen from Finland to
win a wide unanimous decision in
Ludwigsburg, Germany.
Also the current WBF World
title-holder at Middleweight,
she will face veteran former
World Super Welterweight
Champion Maria Lindberg, 18-5-2
(10), from Sweden, undoubtedly
the most accomplished opponent
of her career.
Kozin, a hard-punching and
technically gifted southpaw, is
undefeated at 17-0-1 (9) since
turning professional at
seventeen in September of 2016.
Amazingly, eight of her eighteen
bouts have been for some version
of a world title.
Lindberg, still going strong at
forty-two, captured multiple
world championships at Super
Welterweight between 2009 and
2018, and showed her grit when
she lost a decision to WBC and
WBA World Middleweight ruler
Christina Hammer in 2017.
Coming off a victory in August,
the Swede is determined to be
successful one weight-class
above, and is confident that she
has too much experience at the
top level for the significantly
younger, and naturally fresher,
champion to handle.
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