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GUYANA’S Women’s International Boxing Association (WIBA) bantamweight champion Shondell ‘Mystery Lady’ Alfred saw her world title hopes dwindle to nought last Friday, when a medical report showed she was three weeks pregnant. According to president of the Guyana Boxing Board of Control (GBBC) Peter Abdool, Alfred who was scheduled to take on Zulina ‘Loba’ Muñoz for the vacant World Boxing Council (WBC) title last night on a card dubbed ‘Gala Ring Telmex’ will now have to wait for another opportunity, due to the latest revelation.
Abdool said the 31-year-old Alfred whose record reads 13-5 (according to www.boxrec.com) was in a very emotional state after receiving the news of her debacle, adding that while it would have been appropriate to have the ‘Mystery Lady’ undergo a medical examination here in Guyana before departing these shores, the authorities in Mexico would not have honoured it.
Said Abdool, “Alfred’s handlers Siebert Blake and Joseph Murray were trying their utmost to console her after the news broke, while they expressed her gratitude to the entire Guyanese boxing population, since they both knew she would have disposed of Muñoz and taken the title.”
According to the WBC website www.wbcboxing.com, “Alfred was planning, working, hoping for the conception of a new boxing era, in her quest to win the WBC super flyweight title. Instead she’s expecting a baby!
Fortunately, the current World of Boxing has strict medical practices, and so Alfred was subjected to a blood test that confirmed her pregnancy, avoiding what could have been a tragedy. So it’s over to Maribel’s ‘Pantera’ Ramirez who’s in excellent physical and mental condition, because she was scheduled to fight this Saturday in Cuautla, Morelos.
Instead she faces the opportunity of a lifetime! The title is vacant, so whatever happens a new champion will be born Saturday night (last night), while the WBC congratulates Shondell Alfred, and her five-year-old son Cameron, who’ll be welcoming a brother or a sister.”
According to Abdool, Alfred, Murray and Blake will return home sometime today.
Abdool said the 31-year-old Alfred whose record reads 13-5 (according to www.boxrec.com) was in a very emotional state after receiving the news of her debacle, adding that while it would have been appropriate to have the ‘Mystery Lady’ undergo a medical examination here in Guyana before departing these shores, the authorities in Mexico would not have honoured it.
Said Abdool, “Alfred’s handlers Siebert Blake and Joseph Murray were trying their utmost to console her after the news broke, while they expressed her gratitude to the entire Guyanese boxing population, since they both knew she would have disposed of Muñoz and taken the title.”
According to the WBC website www.wbcboxing.com, “Alfred was planning, working, hoping for the conception of a new boxing era, in her quest to win the WBC super flyweight title. Instead she’s expecting a baby!
Fortunately, the current World of Boxing has strict medical practices, and so Alfred was subjected to a blood test that confirmed her pregnancy, avoiding what could have been a tragedy. So it’s over to Maribel’s ‘Pantera’ Ramirez who’s in excellent physical and mental condition, because she was scheduled to fight this Saturday in Cuautla, Morelos.
Instead she faces the opportunity of a lifetime! The title is vacant, so whatever happens a new champion will be born Saturday night (last night), while the WBC congratulates Shondell Alfred, and her five-year-old son Cameron, who’ll be welcoming a brother or a sister.”
According to Abdool, Alfred, Murray and Blake will return home sometime today.
