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Menzer and Graf Win by Decisions in Germany
By Torben L.
March 10, 2008

     
   
   
   
   
(MAR 10) There has been a good deal of concern about the future of women's boxing in Germany, after the boxing queen, Regina Halmich, abdicated last year. Judging by Saturday's two world championship fights in Krefeld, the future looks bright. Neither Ina Menzer nor Alesia Graf has yet achieved the celebrity status of Halmich, but their performances in the ring this weekend, fully complied with the standards Halmich has set. Both produced very entertaining fights against very good opposition.

Ina Menzer (19-0-0) faced Sandy Tsagouris (7-0-0) for the WIBF and WBC Featherweight title. This was a match between two technical well founded boxers, who gave the crowd a high quality and very entertaining fight. Both fighters made a cautious start to the fight, but after a relatively slow first round, there was plenty of fireworks in the following rounds.

Menzer clearly had respect for Tsagouris' punching power and kept her guards high, but was punished by some very good body punches from the Canadian. Menzer received a deep cut over her right eye by an unintentional clash of heads in round 5, but her cutman managed to stop the blood between rounds 5 & 6.

 Tsagouris did her best to open the cut was, but was unsuccessful and Menzer weathered the storm, and managed to gain control in the latter rounds with the exception of round 10, that Tsagouris won clearly. The judges scored the very close fight 96-94, 97-93 & 97-93. After the Tsagouris team, told the press that they had been robbed, and that it is impossible to win on points in Germany.

The second world championship fight of the evening saw Alesia Graf (19-1-0) face late substitution Hagar Shmoulefeld Finer (16-5-3) with the WIBF and GBU Super Flyweight titles at stake. Shmoulefeld had fought for the WIBF Inter-Continental Super Flyweight title in her native Israel only 8 days ago. She won the title by TKO in the 8th round over Doris Köhler. This fight also turned out to be a real crowd pleaser.

 It did not match the previous fight as far technical standards is concerned, but it made up for that in sheer fighting will by both boxers. It was very much toe-to-toe action, where Graf came out on top due to her larger repertoire of punches. Shmoulefeld fought a very close fight against Halmich, but Graf seemed to have much less problems with the game Israeli. No doubt, boxing 8 rounds a week earlier, did not do much good for Shmoulefeld's chances in this fight. The fight was scored 98-92, 98-93 and 97-93. Smoulefeld said in a post fight interview, that she was going for a knock-out as she did not believe it possible to win on points in Germany, but her tactics backfired. She readily admitted, that Graf won the fight.

 
     
     
   
         
         
         

 

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