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The sheer physical force of Ann
Sophie Mathis proved too much
for Olivia Boudouma and netted
the 34-year-old French star the
vacant WBF womens world
welterweight championship on
Thursday, June 23, in Pennes
Mirabeau near Marseille.
Boudouma in the process not only
suffered her first professional
defeat when Belgian referee Jean
Pierre Van Imschoot counted her
out after 35 seconds of round
five, but went straight to
hospital with her jaw fractured
in two places.
Despite the huge difference in
punching power, Olivia was
undaunted at the start and her
neat boxing was impressive. But
Mathis is tough and simply
ignored her co-challengers
punches, trying to chase
Boudouma down. After giving away
the third round, Ann Sophie
finally connected and send the
Swiss-based girl down in round
four. Like a pitbull having
smelled blood, Mathis then
chased Boudouma early in the
fifth and when floored again,
with blood dripping from her
mouth, it was clear Olivia was
hurt and could not go on.
Mathis brought her outstanding
record to 24-1 and the fact that
this was her 21st KO
win shows that she is probably
one of the hardest punching
female fighters,
pound-for-pound, in the world.In the second main event,
France’s # 1 lightheavyweight
Nadjib Mohammedi won a lopsided
12-round decision (120:106,
119:108, 118:108) over George
Tevdorashvili in a messy fight
for the World Boxing Federation
Intercontinental title. Both
fighters are awkward to the core
and referee Noel Monnet, who
deducted the Georgian visitor
two points for holding, did
little to clean things up.
However, Mohammedi, now 24-2
(12), will likely cause every
lightheavy in the world
problems, that’s how cute and
hard to figure out he is. In his
previous fight last December, he
made WBO champion Nathan
Cleverly look awful in losing
closely on points – and did it
on two days notice!
All in all, promoter Robert
Safrani and his matchmaker
Christel Aujoux put together an
extremely enjoyable and
highclass “WBF Boxing Night”. |
