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“La Fiera” at junior fly?
By Ewan Whyte
February 19, 2008

     
   
   
   
   

(FEB 19) Carolina Álvarez of El Guarataro (Venezuela) is thinking of dropping down to junior flyweight (48.98 kg), reports Leonardo Duque Rivero of Meridiano. According to her trainer, Andrés Montañez, “she comes into the gym for her daily workout each evening weighing 51 kilos and ends the session at 50. This is true of no other fighter. She’s giving away weight every time she fights, whereas with the right preparation she could easily make 48 kilos. At junior flyweight, she’d be faster and hit harder. All the same, we’ll have to wait to see what those who manage her career in Germany have to say on the subject. Ultimately, it’s their decision”.

 

If she gets the green light, the plan is then to go after the junior flyweight title before seeking a rematch with Susi Kentikian, who stopped her – a ridiculous stoppage in her view  – on the 16th February 2007. “I don’t understand why he (referee Mark Nelson) stopped the fight,” said Álvarez on that occasion. “Nothing was happening. She hadn’t hit me. I was absolutely fine.” The Venezuelan was behind on the scorecards and had a heavily bleeding nose at the time, but believed that the Armenian was tiring and that she stood a chance of stopping her in the remaining three and a half minutes.

 

“You have to remember this is women’s boxing,” explained José Ignacio Martínez, the Spanish judge, who was supervising the fight. “If it had been a men’s title fight, perhaps things would have been different.”

 

“Perhaps it wasn’t the right moment,” added the Panamanian judge, Medardo Villalobos, “but if he hadn’t stopped it and there’d been a knockout, worse might have happened. He did it for her protection.”

 

But according to Boxrec, Kentikian has only scored one knockout in 19 professional outings, whereas there are male boxers who score one virtually every time they take to the ring. If, then, as Villalobos claims, the point of stopping a fight is to prevent a knockout, you would think it would be the men’s fights they stopped as soon as there were a nose bleed, not the women’s. The logic of the one argument, in other words, defeats that of the other.

 

Perhaps the term ‘logic’, here, is inapposite. You can’t help noticing, watching boxing, that it’s seldom the fighters, but disturbingly often the officials, that display symptoms of brain damage. There was a case earlier this month where a fight scheduled for ten rounds – (that, the supervisor is adamant, is what had been agreed; that is what it said on the poster; and that was what had been announced in the centre of the ring before the fight began) – was stopped at the end of the eighth because one corner, without warning and without adducing a scrap of evidence, suddenly claimed that the contract they had signed had been for eight.

 

Well you can’t blame them for trying, I suppose, if their girl was exhausted, but should the officials really have bought it? Would you?

 

Sources: Meridiano, Líder en deportes



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Comment from WBAN:  Susi Kentikian's Official Boxing Record is 19-0-0 (14KO). In her fights she is credited with one KO (as mentioned in Ewan's report), and also has 13 TKO's in which if the fight had not been stopped the fight would in all likelihood have resulted in a KO.  This comment is written by Sue TL Fox

 
     
     
   
 
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