Ivanova defeats Vasilyeva

[Dee Williams]

Congrats to Forum member Galina Koleva Ivanova for adding the WIBF Bantamweight title to her collection by defeating Oksana Vasilyeva of Russia in Russia over ten rounds on March 6. Galina now has held the WBC, WIBF, GBU and WBA Bantamweight titles and was defending her WBC title against Vasilyeva's WIBF title.

Galina is from Bulgaria and has been boxing professionally since 1999. You can read about her boxing career at

www.wban.org/biog/givanova.htm

[Dee Williams]

And for a little extra - it's her birthday today! Happy Birthday, Galina!

[Ken Macaulay]

Nice to see Ivanova is finally getting some recognition.
Seems to of had most of her fights in her opponents back yard, & got more than a little unlucky on several occasions.
Now finally the decisions seem to be going the right way...

[Dee Williams]

Galina is WBAN's Fighter of the Month for April 2009.

[Rick Scharmberg]

Way to go Galina!