(JAN 11) In a late addition to next Saturday's bill at the Hotel-Casino Conrad in Punta del Este (Uruguay), "The Killer Peach", Cris Namus of Uruguay, will be confronting Juliana Werner de Aguiar (below) of Brazil over four rounds at welterweight.

Photo credit: Boxeouruguayo.com

After a successful career in amateur boxing in which she amassed 29 wins in only 32 outings (29-1-2) and with the Junior Aguiar Team in muay thai, Juliana Werner de Aguiar began fighting professionally – initially in vale tudo – in 2005. Although she can point to victories in that discipline over the strangely named Talita TBC (whose corner threw in the towel 4 minutes and 34 seconds into the first round) and Deise Lee (referee's stoppage), one woman has thrown a long shadow over her career: Brazilian jiu-jitsu specialist Vanessa Porto, who has defeated her already three times, the calamitous 32-second choke-out (below) coming in their second fight.

In her only professional outing to date as a boxer – on an all-female bill in Durban promoted by South Africa’s first female boxing promoter, Mbali Zantsi and featuring female referees, judges and time-keepers – she and the other Brazilian fighters reportedly provoked the anger of their South African opponents by refusing to fight unless they were paid in advance, keeping the audience in the hall waiting for an hour and playing havoc, I expect, too, with the TV schedules – (South Africa's SABC 2 was carrying the bill live). When the fights did eventually get under way, as Mesuli Zifo relates, the South African women exacted what they saw as retribution, and "the Brazilian fighters were battered from pillar to post".

Although described in today's fight announcement as "the spectacular Uruguayan boxer Cris Namus", we've seen nothing too spectacular from the Bombón Asesino (Killer Peach) yet: two wins on points – most recently over Silvia Fernanda Zacarias and before that, controversially, over María Eugenia López of Argentina [who incidentally will be fighting her fellow countryman Guillermina Fernández in the Hotel Mantra (also in Punta del Este) this evening (2008-01-10)] being all she could garner from her first outings as a professional.

Sources: Ultimas Noticias, Gsport, Dispatch Online,