Zsiga Replaces Injured Bacanov – Faces Marston At York Hall On Oct 4th

(SEPT 29)  WBAN has received a press release today that a replacement opponent has been found for Marianne Marston, for the upcoming boxing event that will take place on the Dave Murphy Acourtier Events promoted by Night of Champions show at the York Hall in Bethnal Green this coming Friday.

Her replacement will be Melinda Zsiga, of Hungary, who has thus far had four very tough pro fights against some top fighters.  Melinda fought Kristina Belinzsky, 25-6-2, in a four-rounder, Renata Szebledi, 8-8-0 in a four round bout, and twice Sabrina Giuliani, in two six round bouts.  She went the distance with all with very close scores at the end of each fight.  She is 0-4-0, but her losses come from these boxers who some held world title belts.  So in other words, with Marston, only being 1-0-0—Marston could have an unpleasant surprise if Zsiga is in condition, since she did take the fight on short notice.

Zsiga has an interesting background with what WBAN has been able to find out about her.  She not only boxes professionally, but she has done some modeling and some body building competitions.

The press release stated the following:  “Promoter Dave Murphy pulled out all the stops to try and find a replacement opponent for Marianne, after receiving news on Friday that original opponent, Bosnian #1 Masa Bacalov, had badly injured her hand during sparring,  Burning the candle at both ends over the weekend, the promoter’s persistence finally paid off on Sunday, with Melinda agreeing to step up to the plate and face Marianne at short notice.”

On receiving the news of her new opponent Marianne said. “I can’t thank Melinda enough, for taking the fight at such short notice, as well as send my sympathies to Masa once again, I hope her injury isn’t too serious.  I don’t know too much about Melinda, other than she is a Super Feather and has fought some top girls. The only YouTube video’s I have found of her are of her fitness modeling, which doesn’t help me at all, but so it goes, I know I have had the very best preparations for the fight.  I’ve had a great camp at the TRAD TKO Gym, Brian (coach Brian O’Shaughnessy) has been working on some new stuff with me and I’ve had some phenomenal sparring with Ian (former British and European Bantamweight Champion Ian ‘Dappa’ Napa) and Angel (Angel McKenzie).”

“Weight wise, I’m already down to 55.5kg with five days to go, so am probably going to have to give away at least a kilo and half to two kilos on the night, the fight is being made at 57kg as it’s way too short notice for her to get down to Super Bantamweight Championship weight of 55.34kg, but so it goes.”

Besides Melinda, I can’t thank Dave (promoter Dave Murphy) enough for sorting a new opponent so quickly, I would also like to thank my sponsors, Optimax, Winkball, BoxFit and the TRAD TKO Boxing Gym, for their unwavering support over the years.”

“With this all sorted, now I can get back to focusing on Friday, it’s going to be a great night of fights, particularly looking forward to watching Angel take on Jennifer Retzke for the World title, but also looking forward to seeing Iain Weaver in action again as well as Steve Martin, who is in camp here with Barry Smith at the TRAD TKO,” added Marston.

Tickets, priced £35 (Standard Seated) and £60 (Ringside) are available direct from Marianne or in person from the TRAD TKO Boxing Gym in Canning town – tkoboxinggym.com – and Ringtone Gym in Euston – ringtonehealthandfitness.com