Nov 18 result??

[Dee Hamaguchi]

Anyone know result of West/Nijhoff last night?

Dee H

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Still looking for the Monterey results myself. However, in Brampton, Ontario: Sandy Tsagougas (now 6-0) won a unanimous decision over Olga Heron (4-8). Also, it looks like they never found an opponent for Ann Wolfe for the Tunica, Mississippi card (surprize, suprize, no one wants to fight her. It looks like she will float away into the same oblivion as Lucia Rijker).

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I was looking at the fight results in the Monerey, California "Herald." They had the feature fight results but for the rest of the card they had this paragraph: Other scheduled matchups included a women's clash between unbeaten Kaliesha West and eight-time national amateur champion Stella Nijhof and a heavyweight fight between Oxnard's Keith Spencer, currently on active duty in the Navy, and Lancaster's William Jackson. Those results will appear in Monday's edition of the Herald.

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This is just my usual rant about boxing becoming a nitch sport instead of the major one it was in my youth, and how women's boxing gets little or no respect.. The New Orleans Times-Picayune had no coverage of the card in neighboring Cut-Off, Louisiana. Box-Rec had all the results of the Grosetto, Italy card except the two women's bouts. And in boxing mad Mexico, I cannot get any results from the card in Nezahilcoyotl.

[Dee Williams]

slampow said:

Anyone know result of West/Nijhoff last night?

Dee H

According to the report in the Monterey County Herald:

www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/sports/16057468.htm

In the women's co-feature, West bludgeoned the rib cage of her 37-year-old opponent for all six rounds to improve to 5-0 as a pro bantamweight. Nijhof, who fought all over the world as a Team USA member, showed exceptional skill, and countered well, but the vast majority of her punches were touchy-feely -- a tactic that wins at the amateur level, but doesn't work in the pros -- and the outcome was never in doubt.

Nijhof's game performance came despite a flight from New York's JFK International Airport that was delayed on the tarmac for five hours, finally delivering her to San Jose at 4 a.m. on Saturday.

All three judges scored the fight 59-55 -- five rounds to one -- in favor of West, who said afterward that her youthful age -- she'll celebrate her 19th birthday in February -- puts her in no rush for a title fight.

"My dad (Juan) is also my trainer and my manager. He's the brains and I'm the fighter, and we work well together," she said. "I've got a long career ahead of me, so there's no need to rush to a world title fight. I want to get some experience and do everything at the right time."