Two IFBA world title fights headline FSN Best Damn
Championship Fight Night Period June 12 at Mohegan Sun
HENDERSON, Nevada (April 24, 2008) – Double-barreled International Female Boxers
Association (IFBA) world championship action heads East on Thursday, June 12 for
a show airing on Fox Sports Net’s Best Damn Championship Fight Night Period from
Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut.
IFBA World junior featherweight champion Lisa “Bad News” Brown (14-3-3, 4 KOs)
defends her title belt against Alicia “Slick” Ashley (14-7-1, 1 KO) in the
10-round main event. IFBA World flyweight champion Elena “Baby Doll” Reid
(19-4-5, 5 KOs) puts her crown on the line versus Anastasia Toktaulova 12-8, 2
KOs) in the 10-round co-feature.
“The IFBA brings fans the best in women’s professional boxing and we’re
delighted to bring our IFBA Championship Boxing series East to beautiful Mohegan
Sun,” IFBA president Judy Kulis said. “Many of the world’s top women fighters
are on this card and all of the matches promise to be very competitive and
exciting. We’re especially happy to have Melinda Cooper’s much-anticipated
comeback on this show.”
Three-time world champion Brown, a native of Trinidad and Tobago, now fights out
of Toronto, Canada. She captured the coveted IFBA crown 13-months ago with a
10-round decision against Jackie Chavez and successfully defended it February 7
via a 10-round decision versus Jeri “Fists of Fury” Stizes.
Ashley, born in Jamaica and living in Westbury, New York, is a 3-time world
champion in three different divisions. Her most notable wins have been against
previously unbeaten Alesia Graf, Reid, Bonnie Canino and Leona Brown.
Las Vegas-based Reid, born in Phoenix, captured her IFBA flyweight title by
10-round decision last July against Shin-Hee Choi. “Baby Doll” also fought a
10-round draw three years ago with the great Regina Halmich in Germany.
Toktaulova comes from Moscow, where she was the European super flyweight and
bantamweight champion, as well as Russian super flyweight title-holder.
Las Vegas’ unbeaten star Melinda Cooper (18-0, 10 KOs) returns on the undercard
after nearly 1-1/2 years of inactivity to take on knockout specialist Donna
“Nature Girl” Biggers (19-7-1, 16 KOs) in a special six-round junior
featherweight bout. Cooper has had difficulty finding opponents, which accounts
for her recent inactivity and only two fights in almost three years, while South
Carolina-based Biggers, conversely, has fought some of the iron including Layla
McCarter, Jelena Mrdjenovich, and Mia St. John.
Stizes (14-7-1, 6 KOs), of Springfield, Missouri, is matched in a six-round bout
on the June 12th card against Ela “Bam Bam” Nunez (6-3, 2 KOs), fighting out of
Jamestown, New York. Another six-round bout will soon be announced.
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