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Kenyan
Girl On A Mission To The WBF World Title
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03.02.06:
Kenya’s
fighting Amazone, Damaris Muthoni, jumped for
joy when her German visa was approved yesterday
and immediately called Fight Production’s
office in Bielefeld, Germany to finalize her
airticket back to the land of her dreams. That
was the news her manager Olaf Schroeder had been
waiting for and he duly pulled the final strings
for his only female boxer and to challenge for
the vacant WBF featherweight ‘world’ crown
on April 8 in Muthoni’s adopted hometown of
Aachen.
“I
am over the moon,” sighted Muthoni, 8-3-2 (4
KO’s), “this is the greatest break I ever
got, not only in boxing, but in all my life.
I’m so happy to soon be reunited with (her
German trainer) Mario (Guedes, former
International German heavyweight champion) and I
will fight, fight, fight to become a champion
myself!”.
Photo:
Damaris Muthoni With The Belt She Wants!
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Guedes,
who had trained Muthoni already last year in his
Aachen gym, is also involved in the promotion of
his charges’ big title fight via official
promoter Pound-4-Pound, for whom April 8 will be
the second event. Negotiations with the
Australia-based World Boxing Federation went
relatively pain-free, not just because of Fight
Production’s history with the WBF but also
because president Mick Croucher personally
watched Muthoni box in her hometown Nairobi on
Christmas day and was impressed. “I told Fight
Production right afterwards that Damaris is a
very good little fighter and its great Schroeder
has now choosen to go the WBF route, because the
WBF wants champions we can be proud of,” said
the big Australian.
It
is expected Muthoni, who scored back-to-back
stoppages in Nairobi in November/December,
arrives in Germany in mid-February, because
Guedes wants eight weeks to prepare her for the
task ahead. Should Muthoni be successful in what
will be the most important fight of her career,
she would become Fight Production’s fifth
‘world’ champion of sorts.
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