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Amira Hamzaoui is a winner and a
fighter no less - and now goes
all out: She filed a suit at the
Kiel district court. She does
not want to accept any longer
that the Bund Deutscher
Berufsboxer (BDB) keeps on
claiming that she did not win
her world title match against
Raja Amasheh last October 11,
2014 in Saarbruecken, Germany.
A look back:
At stake in the fight were the
WBF world title and the
so-called “silver title” of the
WBC. Both organizations agreed
the three judges beforehand and
the BDB had no complains with
them. After 10 rounds, Hamzaoui
was announced the winner by
split decision.
As is
practice, the BDB proceeded to
report this result to the
relevant databases (boxrec.com
and fightfax) and Hamzaoui
improved her computer-generated
world ranking substantially.
But about a month later, a
website suddenly reported that
the BDB no longer accepts the
result and had scandalously
changed it into a “No Contest”.
Then the BDB website confirmed
this and claimed this to be a
mutual decision of the BDB and
the WBC. In the meantime,
however, the WBC exposed this as
a lie from the BDB, clarifying
that the WBC never changed the
decision nor would it be within
their rules.
The legal battle away from the
ring was on, since the French
world champion refused to accept
her victory being stolen. While
the BDB points towards the WBC
rules, these WBC rules state
explicitly that they cannot
change a decision. They define
the exact opposite of what is
claimed and outline that it
can’t touch the judges verdict.
However, the BDB did not stop at
this. Not only through its own
internet website did they spread
the rumor that Amira Hamzaoui
had not won the very fight she
won, but also wrote to
boxrec.com and made sure that
all of a sudden even there the
result was changed.
Hamzaoui’s lawyer Marcus
Bartscht said: "They not only
messed up the sport, but from a
legal point of view it is not
maintainable. As a national
federation, the BDB cannot
arbitrary change fight results
and send them out. That’s a
scandalous injustice!"
Now the district court must
decide.
The World Boxing Federation,
however, was not impressed by
the phony machinations of BDB
and held on to the result as it
was originally given.
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