(MAY 15) Korean boxing
sensation Hyun-Mi-Choi is looking to build on one of the most
extraordinary resumes in female boxing, when she takes on former
world champion Unathi Myekeni from South Africa for the vacant
World Boxing Federation (WBF) Womens World Super Featherweight
title on Saturday May 21 in Jinju, South Korea.
Only 25 years old, Choi, 12-0-1 (4), is a former undefeated WBA
World Featherweight Champion and the reigning WBA World Super
Featherweight Champion, and amazingly twelve of her thirteen
bouts recorded by BoxRec was for a world championship.
A defector from the dictatorship of North Korea, all of her
professional fights has taken place in South Korea where she
enjoys massive popularity. Her fights are usually televised to
the country´s more than fifty million people by KBSN Sports,
generating huge viewing numbers.
Unathi “Showtime” Myekeni, 10-2-1 (4), from Mdantsane in South
Africa´s Eastern Cape province, will be going to Jinju to
attempt to regain former glory. After turning professional in
2007, she won the WBF world Super Bantamweight title in 2010 but
was never given an opportunity to defend it.
Last August she came up short in a challenge for her former WBF
crown, when she lost a razor-thin majority decision to
compatriot Gabisile Tshabalala, and has since been waiting for
another chance to become world champion. While moving up in
weight to face Choi is a daunting task, it is one she claims to
be more than ready for.
The Hyun-Mi Choi vs. Unathi Myekeni World Boxing Federation (WBF)
Womens World Super Featherweight title fight on May 21 at the
Pearl Gymnasium in Jinju, South Korea, will be supervised by WBF
President Howard Goldberg, who recently expressed his
anticipations for the encounter, saying:
“This is a fantastic fight for womens boxing. An undefeated
national hero taking on a former world champion, still on top of
her game, can only be a great fight. I expect that Choi will be
trying to put on a show for her fans, but Myekeni is perhaps her
toughest opponent to date so I expect fireworks!”
