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Saturday May 21 saw three new
World Boxing Federation (WBF)
Champions crowned in front of
sizable crowds and massive TV
audiences, as entertaining title
fights took place as far apart
as Jinju in South Korea and
Balaruc les Bains in France.
On a show promoted by Jinju
Sanrok Promotion, undefeated
South Korean super star Hyun-Mi
Choi won the vacant WBF Womens
World Super Featherweight title
with a clear unanimous decision
over extremely game former world
champion Unathi Myekeni from
South Africa.
Already the reigning WBA world
champion, Choi took charge from
the beginning and continuously
threw hard combinations at her
foe, looking for the knockout,
but Myekeni was very resilient
and never gave up on her chance
to win the fight.
After ten rounds of boxing there
could be only one winner, and
judges Man-Deuk Kwon, Darryl
Ribbink and Kyung-Han Lee scored
it 98-93, 99-92 and 100-91
respectively for Choi, who
improved her impressive
professional record to 13-0-1
(4). Myekeni falls to 10-3-1
(4).
Also in Jinju, the very
underrated Moon Chul Suh became
the new WBF Asia Pacific Super
Bantamweight champion in
conclusive fashion when he
destroyed southpaw Anukul
Promkamsaw from Thailand in the
second round to lift the vacant
title.
While the first round was fairly
quiet and even, Suh came out
aggressively in the second and
floored Promkamsaw three times
to force the stoppage from South
African referee Darryl Ribbink,
much to the delight of the many
fans in attendance.
The new WBF Asia Pacifc Super
Bantamweight Champion improved
his rather misleading record to
9-7-3 (4), while Promkamsaw
drops to 15-9 (7).
In Balaruc les Bains, France,
European champion and home town
favorite Leatitia Arzalier was
on top of her game as she beat
Brazilian Aline de Cassia
Scaranello by unanimous decision
to win the vacant WBF Womens
World Strawweight title.
32-year-old Arzalier, now 11-1
(3), threw and landed with the
harder punches throughout, and
was very effective in avoiding
the attacks from “La Poderosa”
Scaranello (27), who comes up
short in her second world
title-challenge and travels back
to Sao Paolo with a 9-4 (7)
ledger.
Judges Brahim Ait Aadi and
Alexander Plumanns both scored
the fight 97-93, while judge
Stephane Nicolo saw it as a
land-slide victory for Arzalier
and had it 100 – 90. The fight
headlined a show at the Halle
des Sports Louis Marty promoted
by Frederic Perez.
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