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Local stars Segolene Lefebvre
and Mehdi Mouhib were excellent
on Friday night, November 2,
when they both triumphed in
World Boxing Federation (WBF)
Championship fights at the
Complexe Sportif Gayant in
Douai, France.
Lefebvre secured the best win of
her career, as she retained the
WBF Womens World Super
Bantamweight title for the third
time, by scoring a wide
unanimous decision over former
WBA and WBO World Champion
Yesica Patricia Marcos from
Argentina.
The defending champion was very
effective in using her reach and
swift footwork, boxing from the
outside and landing precise jabs
and counter-punches, while
Marcos struggled to get through
with much of consequence except
for some good body-shots.
After ten rounds of boxing,
judges Christophe Hembert, Smail
Alitouche and Alexander Plumans
all scored the fight 98-92 for
25-year-old Lefebvre, who
improved her professional record
to 11-0 (1). Marcos (32) goes to
28-2-2 (9).
Mehdi Mouhib had an unexpected
easy time winning the vacant WBF
Intercontinental Welterweight
title, when he dispatched of
previously undefeated Egyptian
national champion Abdumonem Said
already in the second round.
Said went down from a hook to
the liver and a right cross to
the chin at the end of round
one, but managed to beat the
count of referee Christophe
Hembert. However, it was only a
matter of time as Mouhib stalked
him in round two and put him
down again with a right had,
prompting the Egyptian corner to
throw in the towel.
Mouhib showed great promise in
what was his first big test and
title fight, taking his
unblemished record to 17-0 (11).
Said, who tried his best but was
simply outclassed and
out-gunned, travels back to
Cairo with his first defeat,
dropping to 18-1-1 (8).
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