This last weekend, on January 14th, at the Barclay’s Center, in New York, we had the privilege to have our independent WBAN World title belt on the line when Amanda Serrano fought Yazmin Rivas. The WBAN belt can only be fought by top boxers in our ratings, and it must accompany a Federation Belt on
President Thomas Pütz: “We all make mistakes – but we got to do our best to correct them.” The German boxing commission (Bund Deutscher Berufsboxer – BDB) officially changed the result of last Saturday’s female world championship between Christina Hammer and Anne Sophie Mathis to a “no contest”. By doing so the BDB followed
WBAN has just received some fantastic news in regards to the Anne Sophie Mathis vs. Christina Hammer controversial fight that took place on July 26, 2014. The WBF has responded to an appeal that was lodged by Christel Aujoux, the Boxing Agent/Matchmaker with Mathis. They wrote the following: From Torben Seemann Hansen, Chairman on behalf
On June 15 Holly Holm out-pointed Anne Sophie Mathis over ten rounds in Albuquerque, NM, reversing a seventh round TKO win by Mathis six months earlier in the same New Mexico venue. The two bouts were landmarks in the sport of Women’s boxing as they matched fighters who many in the sport consider the two
Mike Tyson once said, “Everybody has a plan, until they get hit.” As I was watching a serviceable tape of Friday’s ten round WBAN, IBA, WBF female welterweight title fight between Holly Holm and Anne Sophie Mathis from Albuquerque, NM, it appeared that Holm’s team had devised a plan that was a brief variation of
ALBUQUERQUE, NM – Officials have been named for the Fresquez Productions-presented “The Reckoning,” featuring the IBA and WBAN rematch between light welterweight champion Anne Sophie Mathis (26-1, 22 KOs) and nine-time World Champion Holly “The Preacher’s Daughter” Holm (30-2-3, 9 KOs) to determine the mythical women’s pound-for-pound championship, June 15 Route 66 Casino Hotel in
(APR 25) Yesterday in Albuquerque, New Mexico, at the Route 66 Casino Hotel, Fresquez Productions held a press conference to announce the upcoming title bout between Anne Sophie Mathis vs. Holly Holm who will be in a rematch. Mathis, of France, who is not only our 2011 Fighter of the Year, but also 2012 January