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Irma “La Guerita” Sanchez is
still the World Boxing
Federation (WBF) Women’s World
Flyweight Champion after
successfully defending her title
Saturday night in Los Cabos,
Mexico with a unanimous decision
over challenger, and fellow
Mexican, Suzana Cruz Perez.
There were no knockdowns.
The Champion, making her first
defense of the title she won in
July, improved her record to
21-5-1 (6), and Cruz dropped to
5-3 (2).
The fight, promoted by Hector
Garcia and his HG Boxing, was
televised by Televisa.
Suzana Cruz Perez, taking part
in her first world championship
fight, did a good job of
pressing the action from the
start, and it seemed as if she
caught Sanchez by surprise with
her aggressiveness.
The challenger immediately found
success with fast combinations,
while Sanchez had trouble
finding her momentum in the
early rounds.
However, as the rounds wore on
Sanchez started to take over,
and in the sixth she caught Cruz
with a well-timed overhand right
that caused a serious swelling
on the left eyelid of the game
Hidalgo-boxer. From that point
on Cruz fought on valiantly with
a closed left eye, enabling the
champion to be more and more
dominant.
After ten entertaining and
well-fought rounds, judges
Enrique Sotelo, Frank Navaro and
Jesus Salcedo scored the bout
97-93, 96-94 and a too wide
100-90 in favor of Irma Sanchez,
but Suzana Cruz Perez put on a
magnificent performance and
deserves equal credit for
creating a very good world title
fight.
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