WBF Worldwide Tremendous-Flyweight champion, Aina Abbey, suffered her first profession defeat to IBO Intercontinental and WBC Youth world Bantamweight champion French Jeyssa Marcel on Friday on the Zenith Metropole in Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, France, PUNCH Sports activities Further studies.
Frenchwoman Marcel handed Abbey a majority choice defeat after eight rounds of their feminine bantamweight contest combat.
It was a contest of unbeaten fighters with the Nigerian coming into the ring with an ideal report of 11 wins and 9 KOs however now holds a profession report of 11-0-1 following the loss.
22-year-old Marcel has now elevated her unbeaten run to 13 wins with two profession KO victories.
The 27-year-old was anticipating a troublesome bout towards her youthful opponent as she had instructed PUNCH Sports activities Further earlier than the bout, “It’s a robust combat as a result of she is primary in her nation in our weight class and I’m going to combat her there.”
Following the loss, Abbey has expressed unhappiness with the end result and believes she was cheated within the contest.
“I used to be not proud of the end result as a result of they used residence benefit for her, although the lady (Marcel) is larger than me. Within the weigh in, the lady weighed 52.88kg and I used to be 50.8kg
“They referred to as for this combat simply three weeks in the past and she or he has been in camp for over two months engaged on her weight, which she dropped from 59kg to 52.88kg. I feel that I ought to have received the combat,” she instructed PUNCH Sports activities Further.
Nevertheless, Abbey remains to be centered on her purpose of being a world champion saying, “I do know I really feel cheated however all the identical life goes on, I’ll by no means relent till I turned world champion.”
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