SHANEE TAKES ON THE KILLER QUEEN
by Will Hale
BritishBoxing.net, UK
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Sept 6 2007
Colchester’s Shanee Martin has a tough assignment tomorrow night as
she ventures to Dussledorf to face massively popular Susi Kentikian
in a challenge for the WBA female flyweight title.
Martin hasn’t had the best of fortunes thus far in 2007. Firstly,
she was stopped on a badly cut left eye in February at the York
Hall against Oksana Romanova. Then she was reportedly robbed on
away territory in Hungary for the WIBF-GBU title. Hungarian Viktoria
Milo got the nod in a fight that was inexplicably officiated by two
Hungarian judges.
And despite Shanee’s six twos win over Bulgaian Svelta Taskova in
June, the Jason-Roland-trained fighter will have her work cut out
against a budding starlet of women’s boxing in Germany.
Kentikian, dubbed the "Killer Queen" because of fast and aggressive
style, is a nineteen year-old who is undefeated in seventeen fights
(no draws) with thirteen quick finishes. The attractive 1.54m-tall
fighter is hugely popular in Germany. Not only did a reported 4.69
million TV viewers tune-in to see her first win the world crown,
but a TV crew made her the subject of a documentary shot over a full
year prior to the fight.
Susi was born in Armenia but fled with her family at the age of
five to avoid her father’s conscription into the Nagomo-Karabakh
war. Her extended period as an asylum seeker has led the press to
make comparisons with the film Million Dollar Baby.
It looks like a difficult assignment for the ever-willing Martin.
Facing a young, undefeated and heavy-handed fighter is taxing enough,
but winning the fight against a fan favourite in Germany is a truly
daunting proposition.