SHANEE BOWS TO THE ‘KILLER QUEEN’
Barking & Dagenham Recorder, UK
12 September 2007
SHANEE MARTIN’S hopes of lifting the WBA female world flyweight
championship were crushed when she suffered a three-round defeat at
the hands of Armenian title-holder Susi Kentikian at the Burg-Wachter
Castello Arena in Dusseldorf, Germany on Friday night, writes LEN
WHALEY.
The east London-trained fighter travelled to Germany knowing she
faced the toughest test of her career against her undefeated rival,
the East European champion, backed by the German show promoters and
a partisan 3,500 crowd in Dusseldorf.
Nineteen-year-old Kentikian, currently based in Hamburg where she
is billed as the ‘Killer Queen’, made it 18 straight victories with
her 14th inside-the-distance victory as she proved too strong for
her challenger.
Martin, trained by Jason Rowland, former world WBU light-welterweight
champion, was cruelly robbed of the WIBF flyweight championship when
she travelled to Hungary and was the victim of a home-town decision
against Viktoria Milo in May.
The clash in Dusseldorf gave her the chance to bounce back with the
best win of her career but the big-punching Kentikian just had too
much power on the night.
With a height and reach advantage, Martin had planned to rely on her
boxing skills to stay out of trouble and score with long-range shots.
However, once the stocky Armenian moved inside to land her powerful
hooks, she was clearly shaking her challenger.
Martin, under fire in the second round, gamely tried to turn the
fight her way but was pressurised again in the third.
She was dropped to the canvas by more heavy hooks before the referee
signalled the end with the German fans celebrating another success
for the ‘Killer Queen’.