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Another top-class World Boxing
Federation (WBF) women’s world
championship fight will take
place on Friday May 12 in Royan,
France, as former French
national champion Ericka
Rousseau fights European
champion, and compatriot,
Angelique Duchemin for the
vacant WBF Womens World
Featherweight title.
Local girl Rousseau, 11-1 (0),
must be considered the underdog,
despite the fact that she can
count on support from the
majority of the crowd at the
Gymnase Espace Cordouan. A pro
since 2013, she won the French
title in 2014 but never defended
her belt.
This past January she challenged
for the European championship,
but lost a close decision to
Licia Boudersa, also from
France, in her opponents
home-town of Lille. Some
ringsiders felt Rousseau (30)
was very unlucky to lose that
fight, and now she gets a chance
to redeem herself by winning a
world title.
Angelique Duchemin, 13-0 (3), is
the reigning European Super
Featherweight champion. After
winning the French Super
Featherweight title in 2013, and
defending it twice, she won the
European title in 2015 by
defeating undefeated Maria
Semertzoglou from Greece.
On April 1 she successfully
defended the European title, and
now she is ready to make a quick
return, and move down in weight,
for her chance to become world
champion. Only twenty-five years
old, she has been a pro since
2012 and has an edge on Rousseau
in both youth and experience.
The fight is promoted by
Rocboxe, and one of two WBF
World title fights in France on
May 12. Approximately 950
kilometres away, in Strasbourg,
Stephanie Ducastel takes on
Argentinian Maria Soledad
Capriolo for the vacant World
Super Featherweight title.
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