(APR 28) Zulina Muñoz, the 19-year-old nurse from San Vicente Chicoloapan who has been cutting through the Mexican bantamweight division like a scalpel - make that 'a chainsaw' - in the first twelve months of her career, and Magdalena Leija had no difficulty making the weight for tonight's NABF title fight at bantamweight at the Arena Neza, México State, with both women weighing in at 53.5 kg.

Muñoz, who had originally been scheduled to fight Anabel Chávez, is hoping that victory tonight will put her in line for a crack at Kwang Ok Kim´s WBC bantamweight title. As usual her colleagues from the clinic - including the doctor in charge - will be on hand to cheer her on, hopefully, rather than pick up the pieces.

On the same card, which starts at 19:30, Gabriela "La Pelusa" González will be fighting Claudia "Yaya" Hernández over four rounds at flyweight.

Leija will be hoping to do better than Patricia Contreras, whom Muñoz dispatched "without mussing her hair" at the "Con la Belleza en los Puños" ("With Beauty in their Fists") all-women's event mounted by Promociones Laz in the Arena Azteca Budoka de Nezahualcoyotl on the 10th February, driving her straight back into her corner at the opening bell with powerful straight lefts before knocking her out barely 24 seconds into the first round; or Beatriz Martinez, whom 'La Loba' (the 'she-wolf') as her team-mates call her, on account of her relentless aggression in the ring -- following a furious initial exchange at the end of which the nerve of the other woman, who had certainly come to fight, snapped -- pursued 'swiftly and without pity' (we are told) around the ring, nailing her eventually with a picture-perfect left hook seconds before the bell.

According to local reports, Martinez struggled woefully on that occasion to make it to her feet, but her knees betrayed her, and she was counted out, making her Zulina's seventh victim in as many outings and her sixth inside the distance.