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Saturday March 30 was a massive
World Boxing Federation (WBF)
championship evening, with six title
fights taking place in South Africa,
Netherlands and Albania.
In Escort, South Africa, Mxolisi
Zuma stopped Tanzanian Shedafa John
in the first round to win the vacant
WBF Intercontinental Super
Bantamweight title.
Zuma ended matters with a left hook
at 1:35 of the round, and improved
his professional record to 7-0 (7).
John drops to 7-5-1 (6).
In the co-feature Lindelani Sibisi
captured the vacant WBF
Intercontinental Featherweight crown
when he destroyed another Iddi
Kayumba at 0:56 of round one with a
body-shot.
Sibisi goes to 6-2 (5), while
Kayumba is now 15-6-2 (9). The show
was promoted by Hlula Boxing
Promotions.
In Wilnis, Netherlands, Willy
Kyakonye, now 8-0 (7), scored a
seventh round technical knockout
over the game Giovanni Auriemma,
2-3-1 (0), to lift the vacant WBF
International Heavyweight title on a
show promoted by The Evolution of
Boxing.
Kyakonye was on top most of the
time, but Auriemma never stopped
trying, and even came back strong
after being floored in round four.
But in round seven the doctor
advised that the fight be stopped
due to Auriemma´s nose being broken.
On a WBF triple-header in Shkoder,
Albania, promoted by Fist of Fire,
Intercontinental Heavyweight titlist
Nelson Hysa made a successful first
defense by stopping Namibian Lukas
Ndafoluma in round eight.
Fighting in his home-town, Hysa
improved his record to 15-0 (13).
Ndafoluma travels home at 23-11
(11).
Arjon Kajoshi, another local hero,
won the vacant WBF World Super
Middleweight title when Colombian
Orlen Padilla had to capitulate in
round five.
Kajoshi remained undefeated at 12-0
(9). Padilla falls to 25-13-1 (22).
Finally, Germany´s Ikram Kerwat
became a two-weight WBF World
Champion when she won the vacant
Light Welterweight title with a
unanimous decision over Diana Ayala
from Colombia.
Judges Adrian Laschescu and Ervin
Kibja both scored it 98-92, while
judge Oltion Kraja had it 99-92.
Kerwat, who won the WBF world title
at Welterweight last June, is now
14-3 (5). Ayala 22-15-5 (15).
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