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Frenchman Cyril Leonet won the
vacant World Boxing Federation
(WBF) International Heavyweight
title on Friday night, December
7, on a big show promoted by
Europrom at the Salle Des Trois
Provinces in Brive, beating
Germany´s Dennis Lewandowski.
Leonet (now 15-10-3, 5 KOs), a
former French national and IBF
Mediterranean titlist, out-boxed
the otherwise game Lewandowski
(13-3, 6 KOs), who did have his
moments but never managed to get
the upper hand on his veteran
opponent.
After ten rounds of boxing,
judges Giuseppe Quartarone and
Ernst Salzgeber both scored the
fight 100-91, while judge Jerome
Lades saw it 100-90, all for
Leonet. Referee in charge of the
action was Christophe Hembert.
At La Estacion Food Park in
Mexicali, Mexico, also on Friday
night, local contender Sergio
Ortega improved his professional
record to 20-2 (14) and picked
up the vacant WBF Mexico Light
Welterweight title, emphatically
stopping Lizandro De Los Santos,
24-16-1 (10), in the second
round.
A powerful combination of
punches send De Los Santos down
a minute into the second round,
but he beat the count of referee
Fernando Renteria. However, when
Ortega followed up and showered
De Los Santos with unanswered
punches, the fight was soon
after waved off. Official time
2:47.
The Ortega vs De Los Santos WBF
title fight was the main event
of an eleven-bout show promoted
by 686 Sport Promotion, billed
as “Furia En El Ring”.
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