(APR 12) World Boxing Federation
(WBF) Womens World Super Bantamweight Champion Segolene
Lefebvre, 9-0 (1), will make her second title-defense on
Saturday April 28 as part of a major show at the Gayant
Expo-Concert in Douai, France.
The 24-year-old from Fourmies
will without a doubt face her toughest challenge to date in
former IBF World Champion Gabriela Bouvier, 13-8-1 (3), from
Uruguay, a very experienced operator entering her ninth world
championship contest.
Lefebvre won the WBF World title in March of 2017 by stopping
Brazilian Simone Da Silva in nine rounds, and retained it the
following November with a razor-thin, but unanimous, decision
over Mexico´s Naroyuki Koasicha.
Gabriela Bouvier (26) came up short in three world
title-challenges before winning the IBF World Flyweight crown in
October of 2013. She made one successful defense before losing
the title by split decision on away ground to Argentinian
Leonela Paola Yudica.
Since then she has dropped decisions in Mexico to veteran
champions Zulina Munoz (44-1-2) and Mariana Juarez (47-9-4) in
bids for WBC World Super Flyweight and Bantamweight titles, so
she is confident that Lefebvre cant bring anything to the table
she has not seen before.
Promoted by Douai Boxing Club in association with Asloum Event,
and televised live by Sport+ and SFR Sport, the show also
features a European Flyweight title fight between Vincent
Legrand and Andrew Selby, and Mathieu Bauderlique against Eddy
Lacrosse for the French Light Heavyweight championship.