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(JULY 10) Myriam Lamare, retained her title in the south of France last night when she stopped 19-year-old Iva Weston of Trinidad in the third round. Weston had begun well enough, using her reach and a snapping left jab to keep Lamare at bay, but the fight began to slip away from her the moment she threw the right: Lamare ducked under it and hit her with a left to the solar plexus that bent her double and set the pattern for the fight. Moments later, Lamare scored again with a left hook to the waist band, followed with another left to the ribcage and a right hook to the liver, and Weston’s posture became stiffer and her movements more cramped as she began to lean over in an attempt to protect her chin with her hands and her body at the same time with her elbows “It’s rare to see a woman working the body as well as Myriam Lamare’s doing here,” remarked the commentator. “Quite a few fighters would have been on the canvas by now.”

“Hit her behind the elbows,” Lamare’s trainer told her during the round break. “Then take her out with an uppercut. She’s leaning forwards.”

Weston had her best moment in the second round, when she surprised Lamare with a left-right combination and began chasing her across the ring, flailing with both hands. It was her uncle, apparently, that had suggested she took up boxing, because she was always getting into fights at school, and here it was as though she’d forgotten everything she’d learned in the gym and was back in the schoolyard. “Knitting,” the commentator called it. “It’s completely different from the style of boxing practiced by Myriam Lamare.”

Normal service was resumed within moments as Lamare connected again with a hook to the liver, followed by a left to the forehead. Fifteen seconds before the end of the round, Weston lunged with a straight left, Lamare ducked under it and threw the uppercut. Weston appeared to take it on the breast rather than the chin, but it hurt her just the same, and now it was Lamare driving Weston all round the ring, staggering her twice with left hooks before doubling her over with a hook to the belly that would have finished the contest had the bell not come to Weston’s rescue.

In the round break, the same mantra: ““Make life hard for her. Break her down below. Then throw the uppercut.”

The collapse came quickly in the third round. After freeing herself nicely from the corner with a hard left (spoiling it somewhat by missing widely with the following right), Weston took a left-right combination to the head followed by the same to the body in the next exchange, and resumed her stoop. Holding her left elbow too low – doubtless with the idea of protecting her liver— she was surprised when Lamare led with a right that struck her hard on the temple and effectively ended her resistance. Realising her opponent was hurt, Lamare switched to full throttle, driving her back into the corner, and as Lamare continued to pound the body, Daniel van de Wiele, realising that Weston was no longer fighting back, stopped the contest.

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