Los Angeles, CA (November 27, 2018) Consensus #1 Ranked Women’s Pound-for-Pound Fighter and Undisputed Women’s Welterweight World Champion ‘The First Lady’ Cecilia Braekhus (34-0, 9 KOs) and Atomweight World Title Challenger Louisa ‘Bang Bang Lulu’ Hawton, (8-2, 2 KOs) worked out for the media today at the Churchill Boxing Club in Santa Monica ahead of their highly anticipated world title showdowns at UNDISPUTED on Saturday, December 8 at the StubHub Center in Carson, CA.
Cecilia Braekhus
“I’m very happy and excited with this great opportunity. We’ve had a terrific training camp and I believe that I am in my best shape of my career.”
“It’s going to be a hard fight because I am facing a big and strong opponent with a lot of experience,”
“Forget about male or female boxing, Saturday, December 8 is about great boxing. I go into the ring to entertain and that’s what I am going to do that night.”
“It took me a lifetime to get all the belts and they can all be gone in one night. It doesn’t get any more important than that”
Louisa Hawton
“I believe I won the fight against Brenda Flores and that the belt belongs to me.”
“I am ready to fight right now and get what is rightfully mine, the WBC belt.”
“We gave a great fight the first time and I am just happy to get the opportunity to fight her again.”
“It’s a great night for female boxing and I am looking forward to representing my country and my family in the best way possible with another great fight and with the win.”
“My kids back in Australia were very disappointed with the decision because they felt I won the fight and wanted me to bring back the belt home and it’s what I intend to do on Saturday, December 8.”
Tom Loeffler, President of 360 Promotions
“It’s an honor to be involved with a boxer like Cecilia who is a tremendous talent.”
“Cecilia was the first woman to fight on HBO and now will headline their last show and we look forward to a great and historic night of boxing.”
“The StubHub Center is a great venue and fans like coming early to enjoy all the fights and we have a great card from top to bottom”
Braekhus (34-0, 9 KOs), will defend her titles (WBC, WBA, WBO, IBF, IBO) against two-time world title challenger, Aleksandra Magdziak-Lopes, (18-4-3, 1 KO), a native of Gilwice, Poland, now based in Marshfield, MA in the ten-round main event telecast on HBO Boxing After Dark beginning at 10:20 p.m. ET/PT. Magdziak-Lopes also holds a victory over Braekhus’ recent opponent Kali Reis.
Headlining the undercard, Southern California fan favorite Louisa ‘Bang Bang Lulu’ Hawton, (8-2-0, 4 KOs), of Perth, Australia will once again face off against Mexico’s Brenda ‘La Bonita’ Flores, (15-4-1, 3 KOs) of Tijuana, Mexico in a featured ten-round world title fight rematch. In their memorable first clash, Flores was victorious by split decision on September 8, 2018 at the Forum in Los Angeles on the SUPERFLY 3 undercard in the night’s most exciting battle. Flores will be defending the World Boxing Council Atomweight World Title earned from their first bout of which the WBC mandated a rematch with Hawton due to the judge’s close and controversial scoring.
Presented by Tom Loeffler’s 360 Boxing Promotions, advance tickets for UNDISPUTED priced at $25, $50, $100 and $150 can be purchased through AXS HERE .The StubHub Center is located at 18400 Avalon Boulevard, Carson, CA 90746. For more information please visit their website at www.StubHubCenter.com. Doors will open at 3:00 p.m. on the day of the event.
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Fighting for the first time in Russia, Cecilia Braekhus won a 10-round unanimous decision over junior middleweight world champion Inna Sagaydakovskaya on July 21, 2018 in Moscow. The victory took place in front of over 25,000 spectators at the Olympic Stadium and an international televised audience. Prior to that, Braekhus was victorious in the first women’s bout televised by HBO in their 45-year history on May 5, 2018. Defeating Kali Reis by unanimous decision at the StubHub Center in Carson, CA, the fight drew an average of 904,000 viewers in the United States, the second highest viewership by the network for boxing in 2018.
Braekhus is currently ranked the #1 Pound-for-Pound Female Boxer by Ring Magazine and the Boxing Writers Association of America. She was presented with the first women’s Ring Magazine Pound-for-Pound Title belt in Las Vegas on September 15, 2018. Since September 2014, Braekhus has held the WBC, WBA, WBO, IBF and IBO Welterweight World Titles and was just awarded three Guinness Book of World Records Awards this year at the WBC Convention in Kiev, Ukraine.
Now training in Los Angeles Hawton will be fighting for the fourth time this year, all of her bouts coming in Southern California. Originally competing in the junior flyweight division, the all-action Hawton moved down to her more natural weight (atomweight) to face Flores in September. On June 6, 2018, Hawton thrilled the huge crowd at the‘Hollywood Fight Nights’ event with a fourth-round stoppage of Elvia Trevino at the AVALON in Hollywood, CA.
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