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On Saturday July 8 at the
Friedrich-Ebert-Halle in
Ludwigshafen, Germany,
undefeated World Boxing
Federation (WBF) Womens World
Lightweight Champion Nicole
Wesner will make her third
title-defense against
Germany-based Bosnian Hasna
Tukic on a show promoted by
Sauerland Event.
Wesner, 12-0 (6), is currently
residing in Vienna, Austria, but
was born in Cologne and moved to
Mannheim, only a few kilometres
from Ludwigshafen, at the age of
seven and lived there for
twenty-two years. So this will
essentially be a homecoming
fight for her.
“For
years I have wanted to fight in
Mannheim, but it has been
difficult to arrange”, says
Wesner, the 2015 WBF Female
Fighter of The Year.
“In
Mannheim you mostly see
Thai-Boxing and MMA events, so
it is a great honour for me to
return home in Ludwigshafen, so
close to Mannheim. And doing it
with Sauerland Event is the best
possible platform.”
Wesner won the WBF World
Lightweight title in December of
2014, stopping 11-1 Hungarian
Gina Chamie in three rounds. In
September of 2015 she
successfully defended against
former two-time world champion
Irma Balijagic Adler (15-5), and
last December she retained her
crown by halting Dominican
Diafana Salazar (9-0) in two
rounds.
22-year-old Hasna Tukic, 9-6
(8), turned professional in 2013
and is quite the experienced
campaigner, despite her young
age. Nicknamed “The Black
Panther”, she already has six
championship fights on her
resume, having won a few
regional titles along the way.
Coming off a first-round
injury-defeat in March, she is
now healed and reportedly very
motivated, and more than ready,
for what is her biggest fight to
date. She is going into
“Wesner-territory”, but living
in Regensburg near Bayern, she
is not that far from home
either.
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