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Mexico: The chutzpah of Marilyn �Cachorrita� Hern�ndez, who climbed into the ring after the recent Torres v Santana fight in Santo Domingo to call out the WBC champion, has been rewarded: Torres has agreed to give the girl from the Dominican Republic a crack at the title. The venue will be Toluca (Mexico) and the date the 27th July. "Ana is a great champion," says Hern�ndez, who performed creditably in her two previous world title attempts (against Halmich and Graf in Germany), "but I can beat her."

France: The date of the return match between Anne Sophie Mathis and Myriam Lamare for the WBA super lightweight title has been brought forward (one day) to Friday the 29th June. The venue will be Marseille: the challenger(Lamare)'s home town.

Germany: SES's latest signing, super welterweight Svetlana Kuhl, and her new co-trainer, Dirk Dzemski, got their partnership off to a winning start in Oranienburg last weekend when all three judges preferred her performance to that of Berlin's Malina Perplies. According to SES, Svetlana gave her more experienced opponent 'no real chance', displaying excellent technique throughout and applying constant pressure.

Mexico: It was announced today that Zulina "La Loba" Mu�oz and Ana Arrazola will be appearing on a bill in Tlane on the 15th June. Their opponents have not yet been named. It is said also that a further fight is being lined up for Zulina in July.

Uruguay: It is still unclear whether Christian Nam�s's opponent on the La noche del futuro bill in the Palacio Pe�arol in Montevideo on Friday will be Mar�a Eugenia L�pez or Guillermina Fern�ndez. The note dated the 13h May (and naming the former) appears above the one dated the 14th May (naming the latter) on the Boxeo Uruguayo site. It would seem easier to mistype the date than reverse the order of the announcements on the page, which leads one to suppose that it will be L�pez, but all will be revealed (metaphorically, you understand) at today's weigh-in.

Mexico: The boxing commission of the Federal District has published its rankings in three weight categories:-
Junior flyweight (Champion: Anabel "Avispa" Ruiz. Contenders: Elizabeth "La Chiquita" S�nchez, Roc�o V�zquez, Delia Lopez, Gloria R�os, Mayela P�rez, Adriana Chamoza, Andrea Ben�tez, Blanca P�rez, Anabel Ortiz and Ana Arrazola); Bantamweight (Champion: Susana V�zquezl. Contenders: Jazm�n "Rusita" Rivas, Esmeralda Moreno, Martha Ar�valo and Mariana Ju�rez); Super bantamweight (Title vacant. Contenders: Jackie Nava, Lina Ram�rez, Vianey Casas, Silvia Z��iga, Ofelia Dom�nguez and Ivonne Mu�oz).

Nicaragua: Paulina "Paquita" Cardona of Colombia had hoped to avenge her only defeat (at the hands of Carolina "La Fiera" �lvarez of Venezuela last year in Chiriqu�, Panama) at the KO Drugs event in Managua last weekend. Instead she suffered a further reverse, losing 78-74 on all three scorecards. With the defeat, Cardona falls to 7-2-2 (2 KOs), whilst �lvarez -- who is still angry at the way her WBA title fight with Susianna Kentikian was stopped (as a result of a misunderstanding, according to WBA Vice-President Gilberto Jes�s Mendoza) just as the Armenian appeared to be gassing -- improves to 9-1-1 (4 KOs). "Perhaps it wasn't the right moment," admitted Medardo Villalobos, the Panamanian judge, speaking of the Kentikian stoppage, "but, if the referee hadn't stopped the fight and there had been a knockout, worse may have happened. It was done for her own protection." "You have to remember, this is women's boxing," added the Spanish judge, Jos� Ignacio Mart�nez. "Perhaps if it had been a male title fight, things would have been different and it would have been allowed to continue."

Germany: Natascha Ragosina will be risking all three of her middleweight world championship belts (those of the WBA, WIBF and GBU) next Friday in Cologne � always assuming a willing opponent can be found. The fight will be televised live by Pro Sieben (25^th May at 22:00 CET). Last time out, Ragosina was more impressive at the weigh-in, when she responded to a shove from her challenger with the kind of imperious slap the wives of French prime ministers reserve for journalists who flirt with their husbands, than during the fight itself, in which she seemed overly cautious. There was also something about the manner in which she used her right hand on that occasion that suggested she was either still suffering from, or fearing a recurrence of, an injury. Whatever the problem, time (or her trainer) should have sorted it out by next Friday. On the same bill, Nadia Hockmi will be challenging for the WBA flyweight belt held by Susianna Kentikian, who seems to have stolen Dutch Muay Thai star Ilonka Elmont's moniker, "Killer Queen". Ilonka, it appears, hasn't noticed yet. (I won't tell her if you don't.)

Sources: Esto, Promociones el Jefe, Box Latino, Netboxe, Boxeo Uruguayo, Boxeo Colombiano, El Universal, Notifight, Agencia Bolivariana de Noticias, SESBoxeo

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