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German national Super
Featherweight Champion Leonie
Giebel will attempt to move
closer to world championship
level when she fights for the
vacant World Boxing Federation
(WBF) Womens Eurasia title on
Saturday June 10 at Porsche
Zentrum in Paderborn.
Still only twenty-four years
old, Giebel has been a
professional since 2011, and put
together an undefeated record of
10-0-1 (1). In October of 2015
she captured the vacant German
crown with a split decision over
tough competitor Daniela Graff,
and, after two stay-busy fights
in 2016, she is now ready to
take the next step.
Her opponent, in the main event
of a show promoted by Kai
Gutmann, will be Serbian-born,
but Germany-based, Maja
Milenkovic, 5-9 (1). It will be
a rematch, as the two of them
squared off in May of 2015 with
Giebel winning by fifth round
technical knockout.
At the time, Milenkovic (25),
who started her career with six
straight losses, was 0-3 and
nowhere near as seasoned as she
is now, two years on. After her
win-less start she went 5-2
before losing a shot at the WBF
International Lightweight title
to Viviane Obenauf in
Switzerland this past March.
Giebel, and the team around her,
is not expecting an easy nights
work, knowing that Milenkovic is
not the same fighter they saw in
2015. In fact, Milenkovic has
fought much better opposition
than Giebel, but it remains to
be seen if the experience she
has acquired since the first
meeting will make a significant
difference.
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