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Frenchman Anthony Riviere, 12-6-1
(2), is looking to settle the score,
and to become a champion again, when
he fights compatriot Alain Sangue,
14-9-2 (3), in a rubber-match for
the vacant World Boxing Federation
(WBF) International Lightweight
title on June 7 in his home-town
Blagnac.
Riviere defeated Sangue by split
decision in a non-title fight in
March of last year, and is a former
French and IBO Continental champion.
But he has been unlucky in his last
two championship fights.
Last June he lost a rematch, and his
IBO title by split decision to
Sangue, and then came up short when
he attempted to rebound the
following December, dropping a
majority decision to Khalil El Hadri
in a fight for the EBU Silver title.
Now he gets a chance to set the
record straight once and for all
against Sangue, and win what would
be his third professional title, but
Sangue will obviously have other
plans.
Born in Cameroon, Sangue (23) is the
younger man by four years, and
enters his third clash with Riviere
with momentum, having won their most
recent bout. Before that he had
sandwiched the loss to Riviere
between victories over Nathan Laib
(9-0) and Kodjo Yetongnon (11-5-3).
As previous results show, this is
such an evenly matched fight that
its anyone's guess who will emerge
as new WBF champion. But its safe to
say that both will, again, do
everything they can to win.
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