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Halmich
vs. Hernandez
By Ewan Whyte
January 19, 2005
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WIBF FLYWEIGHT
CHAMPIONSHIP |
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Champion: |
Challenger: |
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Regina Halmich |
Marylín ‘la
Cachorrita’ Hernández |
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Place of Birth |
Karslruhe, Ger.
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Dominican
Republic |
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Record |
45-1-1 (15 KOs) |
9-3-0 (4 KOs)
(Unverified) |
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Weight |
50.5 kg |
50,6 kg |
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Height |
1.60 m |
1.63 m |
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Age |
27 |
20
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Trainer |
Torsten Schmitz |
Antonio Cruz |
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Date/Place |
15th
January 2005 -Bördelandhalle, Magdeburg (Germany) |
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Referee: |
Daniel van de
Wiele (Belgium) |
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Judges: |
Daniel Talon
(France), Bob Logist (Belgium), |
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Francisco
Vasquez Marcos (Spain) |
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“There’s a lot
of jealousy in boxing,” remarked Ana María Torres in a recent interview.
There is the Dominican Republic, that’s for sure. Barely six weeks before
Johanna ‘La Bailarina’ Peña was due to fight Regina Halmich for the world
title in Germany last year, a certain Liliana Martínez Vargas went to the
offices of one of their national newspapers and called her out.
Martínez was vexed because she felt she’d beaten Peña when the two of them
had fought two years previously. “She was lying on the canvas like an old
shoe,” she sneered. “The referee should have stoppd the contest, but he
decided to let it continue. Then the bell rang, and that was the only thing
that saved her from a crushing defeat. There’s a thorn in my heart that I
call ‘La Bailarina’, and the only way I’ll get rid of it is to fight her
again.”
Then came the challenge: “There’s a slot free on the Domini bill on the 20th
December. I dare the pampered daughter of the ‘maestro’, Ruddy Peña, to come
out and fight me. I’ll pulverize her!”
With a world title fight coming up on the 17th January, Peña declined the
invitation, and Martínez never got her rematch, but why had she waited over
two years to come forward with the challenge? Why all the invective now? Why
suddenly now was the thorn in her heart so painful that she could no longer
contain her resentment?
Because Peña had struck pay-dirt, that’s why.
“My hotel room in Magdeburg is bigger than our entire house back in the
Dominican Republic,” an amazed Marylín Hernández remarked to journalists
last week. They live in a tin shack. Thirteen months ago, when heavy rains
and electric storms resulted in the bursting of the banks of the Yaque del
Norte and Yuna rivers, floods in the region of El Cibao in the north of the
Dominican Republic just washed away these shacks, and some 47,270 of their
inhabitants were evacuated, whilst the tropical storm Odette that hit the
South of the country at almost the same time ripped them out of the ground,
leaving another 5,000 homeless. “With the 9,000 dollars I’m making — win or
lose,“ said Hernández. “I’m going to buy us something better.”Not surprisingly with the German
promoters sniffing around, the fights in that country take on a
ferocious intensity. They showed a clip of one on ZDF before the
Halmich fight. Hernández is fighting a tall but beautifully athletic
girl that looks about the same age. She ducks under the girl’s jab
and throws a right at her ribcage but she’s only setting herself for
a huge overarm left.
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