(JULY 31) Regina Halmich made her penultimate appearance in the ring last Saturday, in Düsseldorf. She announced long ago, that she wants to retire before her 31st birthday. However, her injury earlier this year forced her to postpone her title defense against Wendy Rodriguez from early June to late July. Therefore her last fight has had to be put back to 30th November - eight days after her 31st birthday. Halmich is determined to leave boxing as a champion, so the only thing that can make her reconsider her retirement, is a loss in her last fight.

Wendy Rodriguez did her best to steal the WIBF Flyweight Belt from her, and made Halmich work for her money.  The German boxing queen usually faces taller opponents, but she had to come to terms with a smaller one this time.

Rodriguez' size, speed, and bobbing and weaving style obviously caused her some problems, and made her miss more punches than usual for her. Halmich's trade mark is relentless attack and work, work, work, and this secured her narrow win against a clever boxing Rodriguez. The judges scored the bout 98-93, 98-93 and 96-95. The latter being closest to a correct score in my opinion.

Wendy Rodriguez said in a post fight interview, that she felt she won the fights. She argued, that Halmich missed as lot of her shots, and although the German did get through with some, they were outweighed by the jabs she managed to place on Halmich throughout the 10 rounds.

The two other title fights on the card saw Ina Menzer defending her WIBF featherweight title in an action-packed fight against a hard hitting and game Jazmin Rivas of Mexico. The bout was scored 99-92, 99-91 & 100-90 in favor of Menzer.

Also,  Julia Sahin also retained her WIBF Junior Flyweight title, defeating Delia Lopez of Mexico by 97-93, 98-92 & 95-95. 

 

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