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Travis Hanshaw put on a near
flawless performance to win the
vacant World Boxing Federation
(WBF) Intercontinental Light
Heavyweight title on Friday
night, November 17, at the Boyd
County Community Center in
Catlettsburg, Kentucky.
Fighting only a few miles from
his home-town of Ashland,
Hanshaw out-boxed and
out-classed a game co-challenger
in David Markert, from Beckley,
West Virginia, much to the
delight of his fellow
Kentuckians watching from
ringside.
Hanshaw, who was a good amateur
with an impressive 123-6 record
in the unpaid ranks, was
effective in controlling the
fight, despite big efforts from
the aggressive Markert to
unsettle him. The bout was easy
to score, but entertaining
none-the-less.
After ten rounds of boxing,
judges Kent Hendrickson and Gary
Thomas scored it 100-90, the
same as scoring referee Marvin
Whittamore.
The new WBF Intercontinental
Light Heavyweight Champion,
still only twenty-six years old,
improved his professional record
to 13-1-1 (7). Markert (35)
drops to a modest, and
misleading, 7-8-1 (3).
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