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World Boxing Federation Womens
World Middleweight Champion
Christina Hammer retained her
crown on Saturday night, July
13, at the Energie Verbund-Arena
in Dresden, Germany when she
unanimously outpointed tough
Swedish challenger Mikaela
Lauren.
Promoted by Sport Events
Steinforth, this was the sixth
successful defense for the
undefeated 22-year-old
Dortmund-resident Hammer, since
she won the WBF title in
February 2011.
In Lauren, Hammer was up against
a skilled and persistent
challenger, but while it was a
tough battle between two world
class boxers it was clear that
Hammer was the better fighter in
almost every round.
Lauren tried everything she
could to get the upper hand, but
Hammer was effective with hard
counter combinations and rarely
let the Swede get the better of
the exchanges.
After ten entertaining rounds of
boxing, judges Frank Michael
Maass,
Terry O'Connor
and Alejandro Lopez scored the
bout 100-90, 99-91 and 98-92 in
favor of the defending champion,
who improved her spotless record
to 15-0 (7).
Mikaela Lauren (37) travels back
to Stockholm with only her third
loss in twenty-two fights (19-3,
7 KOs), and can be happy that
she put up a respectable
performance against the
number-one middleweight in the
world.
Also on Saturday night, but
thousands of miles away across
the Atlantic, at the Madison
Civic Center in Madison, West
Virginia, USA the WBF North
American Cruiserweight title
remained vacant when
co-challengers Bobby Thomas Jr.
and Warren Browning fought to a
draw.
This was a rematch of their
January bout which Thomas
(12-1-1, 9 KOs) won after two
rounds when Browning (17-3-2, 12
KOs) retired on his stool due to
an arm injury.
This time the fight went all ten
rounds, and both boxers gave
everything they had to win, only
to see the judges at ringside
unable to separate them when the
decision was announced.
A third fight could be in the
making, as the spectators
definitely got their money’s
worth. Special guest in
attendance was former undisputed
Heavyweight Champion of the
world James “Buster” Douglas
(Pictured below with WBF
Supervisor Ron Scalf).
Promoters were Chase Hill of
Black Eye Promotions, in
association with Jerry Thomas.
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