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Veteran campaigner Gilberto
Pereira dos Santos became a
World Boxing Federation (WBF)
Champion in his second attempt
on Saturday, June 16, when he
won the vacant South America
Middleweight title at the Campo
de Goias Stadium in Goiania,
Brazil.
Pereira dos Santos had come up
short last October in a fight
for the same title, when he was
stopped in six rounds by
undefeated Alan Emmanuel Castano
from Argentina, but this time,
fighting in his home-town, he
would not let the opportunity
pas him by as he out-boxed
another Argentinian in Abel
Adriel.
Twelve years the younger man at
twenty-eight, Adriel had come to
fight his chance but Pereira dos
Santos boxed very well and kept
the visitor at bay with straight
punches from the outside, and
mixed things up with well-timed
hooks to body and head.
After ten rounds of boxing the
former Brazilian national
titlist was awarded a
well-deserved unanimous decision
by scores of 99-91, 98-92 and
95-95, improving his
professional record to 15-7
(10). Adriel travels back to
Buenos Aires at 21-18-3 (5).
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