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Stacey Reile: "Stay-Lo" Steps Up
By Bernie McCoy
May 12, 2008

     
   
   
   
   
(MAY 12) The line originated in the Bible, Ecclesiastics 9:11, but by the time I heard it, the quote had been Brooklynized: :"The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet." That's the version many in the boxing community may apply to the upcoming Ina Menzer/Stacey Reile bout for Menzer's WIBA and WBC featherweight championship titles in Oberhausen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany on May 31. Consider: Menzer brings a 20-0 record, against some of the best fighters on the European continent, to the bout, while Reile's eight wins have come against fighters who, charitably, could be termed slightly more prosaic.

Does Stacey Reile have a realistic chance against the unbeaten champion in the unbeaten champion's home country? "I know I do," Stacey Reile stated, with particular emphasis, last week, over the phone from her training base in Miami. Reile converses, over a phone line, much like she fights in a ring, with an intensity and a take-no-prisoners purpose. "I'm in the best shape I've ever been in and I've been in good shape before, but nothing like this. I'm running six miles a day and it's easy, my sparring sessions have never been better. Throughout my career, I'm used to being underestimated, it's happened from the beginning, but the fact is I've beaten everyone I've fought. I've gone to Cicero, IL and Japan twice (Reile says she was treated much better in Japan than she was in that gritty Chicago suburb) and won all three bouts. I should have gotten a clear cut decision in Illinois but that happens when you go to hometowns." (Reile won a majority decision over Nora Reyes in April 2006.)

Asked about the possibility of a "home cooking" decision in Germany, Reile concedes, "Sure, that's a possibility, but all I can do is go hard for ten rounds and, (anticipating a question) no, I won't have trouble with ten rounds (Reile has never been beyond six rounds in her eight bouts.) "Twenty minutes of boxing will be no problem given the shape I'll be in when I step into that ring in Germany. I'm a little surprised Menzer is taking a bout so soon after the Sandy Tsagouris bout (in March) and the cut she sustained in that fight, but, once again, there just might be a little bit of underestimating."

Reile and Menzer have a common opponent, Maribel Santana. Reile won a six round decision in January while in April 2006, Santana retired after four rounds against Menzer in Germany. "I've watched a tape of that bout (Santana/Menzer) and it seemed to me that Santana felt like she had no chance to box with Menzer, so she stayed on her stool." Listening to Stacey Reile and her takeaway from that bout, one gets the unmistakable impression that there will be no "staying on a stool" on May 31. "Menzer isn't used to American fighters and the movement they bring," Reile states, "I hit hard with both hands and I'll bring plenty of movement, it's probably not something she's (Menzer) seen too often." It's a fact that that the vast majority of Ina Menzer's opponents have been European fighters with a standup European style and Stacey Reile's style is a far cry from anything that could be labeled "standup." She categorizes herself as a "boxer/puncher with plenty of movement, whatever it takes."

At the same time, it's a given that Ina Menzer will step into the ring as a prohibitive favorite on May 31, if only based on the top-line comparison of the two fighters' experience and quality of opposition. However, Reile notes that there is a clause in the contract that binds her, should she win, to three fights in Germany, including a return bout with Menzer. Standard Promoter Protection? Of course, but just possibly, there could be a lingering thought that Menzer could have a "real" fight on her hands on the last day in May. On the other hand, for Stacey Reile, there is an element of "win/win" to the bout: a good showing, win or lose, against one of the world's top female featherweight boxers, will enhance the Florida fighter's bona fides as a major factor in the division.

But, as she heads towards the biggest bout of her career, Stacey Reile has only winning in her sights. And as big as the bout in Germany is, equally large is the statement Stacey Reile is making and the example she is setting for the athletes, and the sport, of Women's boxing. The landscape has been cascaded, recently, with examples of female fighters, and/or their plenipotentiaries, talking up fights they want, talking up fights they should have had, talking up what they'll do if those fights happen. Talking up is easy, stepping up is quite a different matter. In most neighborhoods I've been in, stepping up is better known as "walking the talk," putting action behind your words. And that's exactly what Stacey Reile is doing as she heads to Germany at the end of the month, stepping up, taking a very tough fight in a very tough environment and doing it with a minimum of talk and a maximum of preparation. Betting on the "swift and strong" may have some biblical resonance, but in the present day world of Women's boxing, "being in the best shape ever" and "hitting hard with both hands" isn't bad either.
 
     
     
   
 
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