Wahlstrom retains against Jeffery with draw
WBC Female World super featherweight champ Eva Wahlstrom retained her title by fighting to a 10-round split draw last night with challenger Ronica “Queen” Jeffrey at Thomas and Mack Center in Las Vegas.
RJJ Boxing Promotions offered free admission to reward its fans and 5,400 turned out to catch the action that went down.
Wahlstrom (22-1-2), fighting out of Finland, was coming off a loss by decision to undefeated Irish star Katie Taylor this past February at famed Madison Square Garden in New York City. The skilled Finn has been the WBC titlist since 2015 and this was her fifth successful title defense.
Jeffrey (17-1-1, 1 KO), a former IWBF world champion from Brooklyn, was riding a four-fight win streak going into last night’s fight against Wahlstrom.
Wahlstrom and Jeffrey are both tactical, pure boxers who fought that way last night, going back and forth without either being hurt. It was an even fight that could have gone either way with judge Tim Cheatham scoring it a draw (95-95), Richard Ocasio slightly favored Walstrom (96-94), and Lisa Giampa inexplicitly had Jeffrey winning all 10 rounds (100-90).
Snapping that head back to start the round!#RJJBoxing pic.twitter.com/IDMi7UrNyw
— UFC FIGHT PASS (@UFCFightPass) August 3, 2019
In the co-featured event, former top 10 rated junior middleweight John “The Phenom” Vera (19-1, 11 KOs) moved up to middleweight, after losing for the first time as a pro last March in France to Michel Soro by way of a 12-round decision. Vera, fighting out of Fort Worth, Texas, won a six-round decision against his Uzbek opponent, Ravshan Hudaynazarov (17-2, 13 KOs), the former WBA FEDALATIN welterweight champion.
John Vera brings home the W in the war we called the co-main event!#RJJBoxing pic.twitter.com/cZWFBLe2tH
— UFC FIGHT PASS (@UFCFightPass) August 3, 2019
Las Vegas-based super bantamweight Jamie “The Miracle” Mitchell (5-0-2, 3 KOs) and Virginian Britain Hart (3-3-2, 2 KOs) battled to a six-round majority draw.
Local fighter Trevor Covington won his professional debut, taking a four-round unanimous decision in the Fight of the Night against Los Angeles super flyweight Ming Freeman (1-4-1), who had a point deducted for a low blow.
Mini walk off shot.#RJJBoxing pic.twitter.com/5ji8TG5khN
— UFC FIGHT PASS (@UFCFightPass) August 3, 2019
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