WBA President Mendoza Visits WBC President Sulaiman In Mexico

ByWorld Boxing Association

The President of the World Boxing Association, Gilberto Mendoza, paid a cordial visit to his counterpart of the World Boxing Council, Mauricio Sulaiman, in his offices located in Mexico City.

A few hours to share and talked about the work done in the recent KO Drugs, held in Tapachula, where Mexican Joselin Arroyo won the WBA title fight and the the Nicaraguan Carlos “Chocorroncito” Buitriago conquered the NABA title, among other fights and the main witness was the former champion Roberto “Manos de Piedra” Durán, among other figures, such as Julio Cesar Chavez and Jackie Nava.

In Mexico City, Mendoza and Sulaiman also had time to talk about some plans to meet soon for the benefit of world boxing.
The fighter Kazakh Kanat Islam had no trouble to knock out his Colombian opponent Orlando “Mantequilla” Estrada, in the WBA Fedelatin 154 pound title fight that took place last Monday in Colombia

Islam dominated with strength and superiority from the beginning of the fight, that finished by TKO in the fourth round.
Islam looked for the exchange and sent Estrada to the canvas for the first time, in the first round. The eight count and the bell ring allowed him to continue.

In the second round, things seemed to change in favor of the local who managed to connect Islam a couple times; who also gave a low blow what meant a point deduction. The actions were closed.

However, the other two rounds of the fight favored the visitor, who finished the fight via KO at 32 seconds of the fourth round, when referee Manuel Rodríguez stopped the bout.

Estrada told the press the press that he was “without arms… I never saw me superior to Islam, but with good preparation I would have won the fight”.

Now Islam, who at the end of the fight thanked the public in Barranquilla, now has a 19-0, 16 KO record while the Colombian Estrada stands at 11-6, 9 KO.

The World Boxing Association 115 lb interim champion Linda Lecca will defend her title this Saturday in Peru, against the Venezuelan Carolina Alvarez.

Lecca made her training camp in Panama, and said she feels very agile to neutralize her opponent. She trusts she will be at her top on Saturday, “Everything went as planned and I think I will be faster and better than ever for the fight”, said to the Peruvian media.

The Peruvian champion defends for the third time the interim title she won from Brazilian Simone Da Silva, on May 31 2014. Lecca is 12-2-1, 3 KO. While the Venezuelan Álvarez (11-6-3, 8 KO), makes the sixth attempt to win a world title.

In the same program, Carlos “Mina” Zambrano (24-0, 11 KO) will fight Dominican Daniel Ramirez (24-0, 20 KO) for the WBA 126 lb interim title.

This Friday there will be several World Boxing Association Regional title fights at the Sortis Casino in Panamá.

There will be a WBA Fedecaribe super lightweight title fight between the defending champion Kelly Figueroa (7-2-3, 3 KO) against Isaías Valencia (5-3, 1 KO). This will be the second title defense of the Venezuelan since 2014.

There will be a WBA Fedecaribe super flyweight vacant title between the Panamanians Israel Hidrogo (10-4-1, 2 KO) against Gilberto Pedroza (11-3-2, 6 KO).

The third regional title will be between the Panamanian Juan Huertas (8-1, 7 KO) against Costa Rican Freddy Fonseca (11-1-1, 8 KO) for the WBA Fedelatin super feather vacant title.

Another Venezuelan fighting will be Tony Gómez (5-0-1, 5 KO) who will fight for the WBA Fedecaribe super featherweight against the Panamanian Rolando Giono (16-5, 11 KO).

The program will have eleven fights including the WBC title fight between the Canadian champion Jelena Mrdjenovich against Francia Elena Bravo, besides the former heavyweight champion Shannon Briggs and Zoltan Petranyi.