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Areti Mastrodouka from Greece is
the new Unified Womens World
Super Featherweight Champion,
capturing the vacant title on
Saturday night, May 9, in front
of a sold-out crowd of 2000 fans
at the Panathinaikos Stadium
Sports Hall in Athens, by
defeating Spain’s Loli Munoz by
unanimous decision.
Promoted by Stylianos Politis in
cooperation with Mastrodouka,
this was the second Unified
Womens World Title fight after
the WBF launched its cooperation
with the WIBF and GBU in March,
and merged the three
championships into the most
prestigious title in female
boxing.
The visitor from Barcelona came
to fight and was often the one
going forward, but while Munoz
was highly unorthodox
Mastrodouka did a very good job
in making her miss. It was a
high tempo fight where
Mastrodouka clearly did the
better job connecting with her
counter-shots.
After ten rounds of boxing there
was no doubt as to who had won,
and judges Ernst Salzgeber,
Zacharias Avramidis and referee
Tonio Tiberi, who due to last
minute problems also had to
score the bout and did a
flawless job, all had
Mastrodouka the winner by 98-94,
100-90 and 98-93.
The new Unified Womens World
Super Featherweight champion
improved her undefeated
professional record to 9-0 (2),
after what was a huge night for
professional boxing in Greece,
and for Mastrodouka in
particular, as she fulfilled her
big dream after years of
sacrifice and self-financing.
39-year-old Loli “Sugar” Munoz,
unsuccessfully taking part in
her fifth world championship
fight, did herself proud but
drops to a misleading 12-15-3
(7), having competitively fought
a who’s-who of the best in the
world since turning pro in 2001.
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