UBC bantamweight champion Carolina "Chapita" Gutiérrez [11-0-0 (8 KOs)] of Córdoba returned to the ring on Friday for the first time since her suspension, when she faced Lourdes González de Ocampo [10-6-1 (4 KOs)] of Misiones in the club Atlético de Villa Santa Rosa (Argentina).

It was a non-title fight. Correction: a ‘non-title non-fight’, which (remembering our algebra) we can reduce to ‘a non-fight’. At least, that’s how La Voz del Interior saw it. “With no opposition, it was easy for ‘Chapita’” was their headline: “Ranked nowhere, Lourdes was just another irrelevant adversary for ‘Chapita’, who really does need now a more severe test.” González was down once (and took an eight count) in the first round after a series of body shots and twice in the second — right hands to the head and jaw — before referee Carlos Pedernera decided he’d seen enough.

Purists among you will object that ‘head and jaw’ is a false dichotomy: (“Surely González’s jaw is part of her head?”). So it is, for the time being; but it won’t be for long, if she doesn’t take up some other sport.

[Sources: La Voz del Interior, La Mañana de Córdoba]