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Elina Tissen, AKA “Elin The
Machine”, won the vacant World
Boxing Federation (WBF) Womens
World Featherweight title on
Saturday, May 8, defeating
Overline Odero from Kenya in her
hometown of Warendorf, Germany.
Southpaw Odero gave the local
favorite plenty to think about
in a very competitive fight, but
Tissen was the main aggressor
and landed the cleaner shots.
The visitor was game and
dangerous throughout, but after
ten rounds of entertaining
boxing Tissen was declared the
winner by clear unanimous
decision.
Judges Ibrahim Barakat and Kazim
Kurnaz both scored the fight a
landslide 100-90, while judge
Jamal Sharoyan scored the fight
99-91. Tissen was a deserved
winner, but the fight was much
more evenly contested than the
scores indicate.
Born in Krasny, Russia, and a
former world champion at Super
Bantamweight, Featherweight and
Super Featherweight, the new WBF
World Featherweight Champion
took her professional record to
24-2 (6). Odero drops to 10-10-2
(2).
The fight headlined a show
behind closed doors promoted by
Elin Boxing.
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