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Ulf Steinfurt, Magdeburg-based
WBF Promoter of the Year
2009, stages an excellent
championship in Dresden, when he
puts on of his female ace Ramona
Kuehne against Bosnian Irma
Balijagic Adler in defence
of (among others) the WBF
women’s world super
featherweight title.
Berlin-based 30-year-old Kuehne,
with only one defeat in 17
fights (5 early), looks to have
the edge on paper. However,
fights are decided in the ring
and not by pre-flight
speculations.
Kuehne’s only defeat was an
injury loss against the
formidable Ina Menzer, at a time
when the fight seemed to switch
her way, or at least when
nothing had been decided yet.
Kuehne, billed as “The Dragon”,
downsized her weight from light
welterweight, to lightweight and
super featherweight until she
met Menzer for various
featherweight titles, with a
clean sheet of 14 straight wins.
Now she is back again up
at super featherweight to make
the first defence of her World
Boxing Federation crown.
It seems that 28-year-old
Balijagic from Sarajevo,
Bosnia-Herzegovina, the taller
by 1 inch, may have an inferior
record with 12 wins (5) inside,
but she has a 10 round split
victory over Jeannine Garside,
who recently beat Ina Menzer
with clear numbers. That may
give Kuehne something to think
of. Kuehne dropped her last
opponent in the 2nd,
3rd and 4th,
to score a 4th round
KO victory and win the vacant
WBF belt, now there’s no room
for hesitation, or take her
challenger lightly.
There is a second WBF title bout
on the same card when Denis
Simcic defends, also for the
first time, his International
light heavyweight title against
veteran Jindrich Velecky.
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