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World Boxing Federation (WBF)
Championship action took place
in France, Japan and Kosovo on
Saturday, October 22, with new
champions crowned in the Light
Welterweight, Super
Featherweight, Super Flyweight
and Cruiserweight divisions.
At the Cirque Jules Verne in
Amiens, France, local favorite
Christopher Sebire captured the
vacant WBF World Light
Welterweight title with a
unanimous decision over former
South American champion Martin
Antonio “El Principito” Coggi
from Argentina.
Coggi got off to the better
start, but Sebire found his
rhythm in round two and took
control of most of the rounds
from then on. Coggi had to work
hard to snatch a round here and
there, and after the final bell
it seemed clear to most that the
home-man had won a very good
fight.
Judge Vincent Dupas (France)
scored it 115-113, judge
Philippe Wouters (Belgium) had
it much wider at 117-111, and
judge Jean-Marcel Nartz
(Germany) voted right in between
at 116-112. Referee in charge of
the action was Christophe
Hembert (France).
Fighting on a show promoted by
Jerome Fouache, Sebire improved
his professional record to
25-9-1 (9), while Coggi, son of
former world champion Juan
Martin Coggi, drops to 33-7-3
(16).
In Japans third-largest city
Osaka, promoter Kenji Maki
presented a well-attended WBF
Asia Pacific double-header
featuring local stars Yuki
Ishizumi and Yuya Nakamura
taking on tough and determined
visitors from South Korea and
Indonesia.
At Super Featherweight, Yuki
Ishizumi, now 10-6-1 (2), beat
South Korean Jae-Bong Jang,
15-5-1 (5), by split decision to
win the vacant title after a
brutal battle with plenty of
back-and-forth action to
entertain the mesmerized crowd.
Judges Malcolm Tunacao from The
Philippines and Eiji Yakamura
from Japan scored the fight
96-94 and 96-93 respectively for
Ishizumi, while judge Kwon Joon
Suk from South Korea saw it
97-95 in favor of Jang. Referee
was Kazushi Nisyama.
Yuya Nakamura improved to 9-2
(5) by securing the vacant Super
Flyweight version with a
second-round stoppage of Afrizal
Tamborezi, 12-6 (6), from
Indonesia. Both fighters came
out fast, and looked determined
to get the other out of there as
soon as possible.
Nakamura edged a lively first
round, and in round two he
floored Tamborezi three times
with body-shots, the last one
making it impossible for the
Indonesian to recover as referee
Kazushi Nisyama counted him out.
Time of stoppage was 2:05.
Contesting the vacant WBF
Eurasia Cruiserweight title,
Switzerland-based Tefik
“Hurricane” Bajrami stopped
hard-punching Croatian Marino
Goles in three rounds in front
of a partisan crowd of more than
2000 spectators at the Pallati i
Rinise in Pristina in his
birth-country Kosovo.
After a close first stanza,
Bajrami got the upper-hand in
round two and started landing
some clean and powerful shots.
At the end of the second he hurt
Goles badly with a good right
hand, but the Croatian was saved
by the bell and allowed to
return to his corner.
However, in consultation with
the ringside doctor Goles didn’t
come out for round three, making
Bajrami the winner by technical
knockout at 0:01 of the round.
The new WBF Eurasia Kingpin, a
late-bloomer at 39 years of age,
took his record to 11-1 (8), and
send Goles back to Croatia with
a 21-8 (19) ledger.
The fight was the main event of
a card promoted by Bajrami.
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