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While it had been a very wet
day, the Boxing-Gods made sure
the rain had stopped when the
first bell sounded for a big
World Boxing Federation (WBF)
Championship double-header
staged outdoors on a
football-pitch in Essen, Germany
on Saturday evening, August 5.
The sold-out event promoted by
Bjoern Sothmann had WBF Womens
Intercontinental Strawweight
Champion Oezlem Sahin making her
first title-defense against
French Flyweight Champion Sandy
Coget, in what was an intense
and entertaining fight.
It was very competitive, but
Sahin was mostly on the
front-foot and knocked her
challenger down in the third
round with a right hand. Coget
beat the count of referee Thomas
Hackenberg, and proved gritty
and classy by fighting her
chance to the very end.
Judges Roman Morawiec, Brahim
Ait Aadi and Piotr Wolke all
scored the fight for Sahin with
96-93, 95-94 and 98-91 tallies
respectively. The Champion
improved her record to 22-1-1
(7), while Coget, a two-time
European title-challenger, drops
to 8-7-1 (0).
In the second WBF championship
fight, undefeated prospect
Shokran Parwani captured the
vacant International
Cruiserweight title when he
impressively stopped Frank
Bluemle. It was a tough test for
Parwani who met plenty of
resistance from Bluemle, but a
hard body-shot ended matters in
the fifth round.
Born in Afghanistan but based in
Hamburg, 25-year-old Southpaw
Parwani showed good potential as
he took his record to 8-0 (7).
Weighing in only a few kilos
over the Light Heavyweight limit, he
will reportedly look to move
down in weight.
Bluemle (32), from Neumuenster,
falls to 14-3-2 (9).
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