Post by Dee Williams on May 17, 2006 22:27:27 GMT -5
Torres to fight Kim on the 4th
from a report by WBAN correspondent Ewan Whyte
Like the colonel in the Gabriel García Márquez story El coronel no tiene quien le escriba, Ana Maria Torres spent most of 2004/2005 waiting for a letter that never arrived. The letter was from her US promoter, Douglas Terry, telling her when and against whom she would be disputing the then vacant WIBA bantamweight championship — she had expected it to be in Las Vegas in March 2005 —" but no one,” as Torres’s manager, Jacobo Ríos, explained at the time, "(was) prepared to let their girl step into the ring with her.”
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Mauricio Sulaimán, Executive Secretary of the WBC, has just written to inform her that following her six-round demolition of 34-year-old grandmother Gloria Ríos on Saturday evening for the vacant NABF Super Flyweight title (Torres's Mexican Bantamweight Title was also up for grabs), she has been awarded a shot at Kwang Ok Kim's WBC belt in North Korea on the 4th June.
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Ana María Torres will find out on the 4th June (or at least have a rather better idea) whether or not she is the best, when she fights the unbeaten Kwang Ok Kim for the world title. No time to relax and enjoy the win over Ríos. Today, already, she was back at the open-air gym in the colony Díaz Mirón with her trainer, Miguel Angel 'Ratón' González, and sparring partners de Edgar Sosa y Omar Ibarra to make sure she's 100% fit for the challenge.
The long wait, then, is over and the assault on the summit – as in mountaineering, the last few paces are invariably the hardest – a fortnight away. She's been boxing professionally since she was 18, when she won on a split decision the first women's bout ever sanctioned in Mexico. Since then, she's seen off Mariana Juárez, and Erika Juárez, and Maribel Zamora, and Berenice Chavez, and Miriam Serrano, and Elizabeth Ruiz, and Ofelia Dominguez, and LaKeysha Williams, and Yadira Rosales, and Susana Vasquez, as well as the brave but hapless Ríos. The brass ring, finally, is inches from her grasp. She has one more neck to stand on - if you'll pardon the brutality of the expression - and it's hers.
Ewan's full report should be on the web site later this evening --- Dee
from a report by WBAN correspondent Ewan Whyte
Like the colonel in the Gabriel García Márquez story El coronel no tiene quien le escriba, Ana Maria Torres spent most of 2004/2005 waiting for a letter that never arrived. The letter was from her US promoter, Douglas Terry, telling her when and against whom she would be disputing the then vacant WIBA bantamweight championship — she had expected it to be in Las Vegas in March 2005 —" but no one,” as Torres’s manager, Jacobo Ríos, explained at the time, "(was) prepared to let their girl step into the ring with her.”
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Mauricio Sulaimán, Executive Secretary of the WBC, has just written to inform her that following her six-round demolition of 34-year-old grandmother Gloria Ríos on Saturday evening for the vacant NABF Super Flyweight title (Torres's Mexican Bantamweight Title was also up for grabs), she has been awarded a shot at Kwang Ok Kim's WBC belt in North Korea on the 4th June.
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Ana María Torres will find out on the 4th June (or at least have a rather better idea) whether or not she is the best, when she fights the unbeaten Kwang Ok Kim for the world title. No time to relax and enjoy the win over Ríos. Today, already, she was back at the open-air gym in the colony Díaz Mirón with her trainer, Miguel Angel 'Ratón' González, and sparring partners de Edgar Sosa y Omar Ibarra to make sure she's 100% fit for the challenge.
The long wait, then, is over and the assault on the summit – as in mountaineering, the last few paces are invariably the hardest – a fortnight away. She's been boxing professionally since she was 18, when she won on a split decision the first women's bout ever sanctioned in Mexico. Since then, she's seen off Mariana Juárez, and Erika Juárez, and Maribel Zamora, and Berenice Chavez, and Miriam Serrano, and Elizabeth Ruiz, and Ofelia Dominguez, and LaKeysha Williams, and Yadira Rosales, and Susana Vasquez, as well as the brave but hapless Ríos. The brass ring, finally, is inches from her grasp. She has one more neck to stand on - if you'll pardon the brutality of the expression - and it's hers.
Ewan's full report should be on the web site later this evening --- Dee