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After losing decisions to
Italian Vissia Trovato, who went
on to become European and World
Champion, and Olympic Gold
medallist and five-time world
amateur champion Katie Taylor
from Ireland, Swiss Lightweight
Viviane Obenauf is ready to
finally make her breakthrough.
On Saturday March 25, at the
Theatersaal Kursaal in
Interlaken, Switzerland, she
will take on Germany-based
Serbian Maja Milenkovic, AKA
Maya Wyoming, for the vacant
World Boxing Federation (WBF)
Womens International Lightweight
title.
Losing to Trovato and Taylor is
no shame, and those results are
the only blemishes on
Brazil-born Obenaufs 9-2 (4)
record. She turned professional
in 2014, and now, at 30 years
old, she will get a chance to
win her first professional
championship.
Milenkovic also entered the paid
ranks in 2014, and got off to a
horrific start by losing her
first six fights. However, she
turned things around in late
2015 and has since won five of
her last seven outings, taking
her record to a respectable 5-8
(1).
While Obenauf has faced better
opposition than Milenkovic, the
24-year-old from Karlsruhe has
been the ten round distance
twice before, winning once and
losing once, something the home
favourite cant claim. So if the
fight goes into the later
rounds, the visitor could have
an advantage in experience.
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