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Pound-For-Pound number-one
female boxer Holly “The
Preachers Daughter” Holm
captured her second World Boxing
Federation World championship on
Friday night, December 7, in
Albuquerque, New Mexico when she
won a unanimous decision over
game Australian Diana Prazak at
the Route 66 Casino Hotel to
lift the vacant World Light
Welterweight title.
31-year-old Southpaw Holm,
already the reigning WBF World
Champion at Welterweight,
improved her outstanding
professional record to 32-2-3
(9), while Los Angeles-based
Prazak lost for the first time
since her debut in March 2010
and falls to 11-2 (7).
With World Light Middleweight
Champion Austin Trout, fresh off
his impressive victory over
Puerto Rican icon Miguel Cotto
in New York last Saturday,
watching from ringside, Holm
took charge from the first bell
and used her wonderful boxing
skills to control, and at times
dominate, Prazak.
Holm worked well with her
one-two combinations, and showed
some nice body-punching, while
Prazak tried hard to close the
distance and work on the inside,
but never found a way to
seriously threaten the local
favorite. It was an entertaining
bout, but it became clear early
on that Prazak would have to
stop Holm to win.
After ten rounds of boxing,
judges John Schorle, Sandy Pino
Martinez and Chris Wilson all
scored the bout a shut-out
100-90 in favor of Holly Holm,
but it was a more exiting fight
than the scores indicate. The
fight, billed as “Fire And Ice”,
was promoted by Fresquez
Productions in association with
Route 66 Casino Hotel. |
