(MAY 12) Promociones Box Latino
announced yesterday that the fight at the Palenque del Hipódromo in
Tijuana on Saturday 20th May between Jackie Nava of Mexico and the
unbeaten Alejandra Oliveras of Argentina for the WBC Super
Bantamweight title will be offered to viewers in Mexico by the Sky
channel on pay-per-view but retransmitted live by Fox Sports for
fans in the United States and the rest of Latin America.
Nava [13-1-1 (8 KOs)], whose place in history as the first ever WBC
women's champion is already assured, will be making her third
defence of the title she won against Leona Brown on the 30th May
2005 and defended subsequently against Susana Vázquez and Kelsey
Jeffries.
Marcela Acuña of Argentina [19-5-0 (12 KOs)], who feels her own work
when she failed to capture the WBC featherweight title (in the WBC
Fight of the Year 2005) was nonetheless more effective than that of
her opponent (a claim the post-match photos would seem to bear out),
has been screaming for a shot at Nava's title, but for the time
being she'll have to wait in line, while her fellow countrywoman,
the diminutive but impressively muscular Alejandra 'La Locomotora'
('The Locomotive') Oliveras [6-0-1 5 (2KOs)], tries her luck.
In her last outing, at the Pabellón Argentino club in Alejandro Roca
on the 7th April, Oliveras stopped the Brazilian Lurival De Lima in
one.
(Sources: www.box-latino.com; www.lavozdelinterior.com.ar;
www.latigresa.com.ar)
