Thanks for checking out this third installment of The World Boxing Review Radio Show's pre-fight blog leading up to next Saturday night's World Female Middleweight Unification match between Claressa Shields and Christina Hammer in Atlantic City, NJ. Today I will continue writing about the undercard which will include the battle for the IBF World Female Featherweight crown between Elena Gradinar and Brenda Karen Carabajal.
The 28 year old Gradinar hails from St. Petersburg, Russia and will be fighting professionally for the first time in the United States. She will carry a 9-0 with 2 KO's record into the bout. Carabajal, also 28, was born and still lives in San Salvador de Jujuy, Argentina, a country well known for female champions (just ask Katie Taylor; she took two crowns away from Argentine women.). "La Pumita", as she is known, has a 15-4-1 with 9 KO's record. Though this fight is for the featherweight title, she lost by MD to Rose Volante on December 22, 2017 in her hometown in Argentina for the vacant WBO World Female Lightweight crown. Volante, from Sao Paulo, Brazil defended her title twice before losing it to...yes, Taylor, by TKO at the Liacouras Center on the campus of Temple University, Philadelphia, PA back on March 15th.
Super Flyweight Jarico O'Quinn is from Detroit and has previously fought on four of the undercards for Claressa Shields. The first time was back on March 10, 2017 when O'Quinn, fighting as a bantamweight, KO'd Szilveszter Kanalas. On June 16 of the same year, he won a UD over David Martino and fought for a third time with Shields (yea she was busy in '17; still is) on August 4 when he battled to a draw with Jose Elizondo. All three of those fights were in Detroit, MI as well as his June 22, 2018 TKO win over Yaqub Kareem. That fight saw Claressa Shields defeat Hanna Gabriels for the IBF and WBA world titles and Christina Hammer maintain her WBC and WBO world titles with the win over Tori Nelson, a common opponent whom Shields had also beaten.
I said yesterday that I would be writing about heavyweight Samuel Peter. We have been working to get him on the show tomorrow but either way, I will "blog" him next. We will all find out what happens Saturday at 11am . Tune in to hear the world famous "Trip Around The World", a fast paced look at the fight schedule for the world and join Aaron Snowell and myself as we discuss this fight and other fight news at blogtalkradio.com/theworldboxingreview.
Bob Murray
TheWBR
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