Team Sauerland has announced that the Nordic Fight Night will
hit Frederikshavn on March 17, featuring the very best of Danish boxing
as well the biggest fight in women´s boxing.
At the Arena Nord highly-rated WBA & WBC & WBO Female Welterweight Champion Cecilia Braekhus (19-0, 5 KOs) and top-ranked contender Anne-Sophie Mathis
(26-1, 22 KOs) will determine the undisputed pound-for-pound queen. A
full Danish card as well as a Danish main event will be announced
shortly.
“We are thrilled to come to Frederikshavn,” promoter Nisse Sauerland said. “We will present an unforgettable night of exciting, high-class and dramatic boxing action.”
In one of the main fights of the night, Braekhus, the 30-year-old “First
Lady” from Norway, and Mathis, the French power-puncher with a KO record of over 80 percent, will battle out supremacy in women´s boxing. With unbeaten Braekhus holding three major titles and Mathis having destroyed pound-for-pound queen Holly Holm in December, the two are widely considered the best female boxers on the planet.
“This is the fight the world wants to see,” Braekhus said. “It´s the
biggest challenge of my life. Mathis clinched a spectacular victory
against Holm but her winning streak will come to an end when we meet on
March 17. Only one of us can be the number one and that will be me.”
Braekhus will be counting on the home support of her Norwegian fans.
“This is the closest I have fought to my home country and I expect many,
many fans to come over by ferry from Oslo and support me,” she added.
“This will be a home match for me.”
Mathis, who travelled all the way to Albuquerque in New Mexico to knock Holm out cold, is ready for another spectacular victory. “I have knocked out Holm in
her backyard and I will also defeat Braekhus, no doubt about it,” she
said. “It will be the first loss for the First Lady. I will show the world that I am the best.”
(Picture: Viasat Norway)
February 10, 2012
