Brave. Warrior She defined herself that way and this Saturday she demonstrated it crowned European champion super bantamweight against the Italian Maria Cecchi at the Casal Cultural de Castellbisbal. The Spanish boxer Tania Álvarez did not give the option to define her in any other way after her fight.
A tough fight, decided in a first round towards the Italian corner, gave way shortly after to a boxeo brutal. Hard blows and moving forward. The kind that doesn’t allow you to blink. The perseverance of the boxer from Sant Esteve Sesrovires was key against a initial courage perhaps excessive of the Italian. They barely measured each other and entered fully into the exchange of blows. The Italian’s direct left foot almost upset the Catalan in Cecchi’s overwhelming first seconds. The Casal, packed to the brim, did not stop cheering on the 22-year-old local fighter. Young, no doubt, but hungry.
“He hit very hard”
“We have worked hard to not get so crazy in the ring and I think that today the work has been noticed,” the boxer assured EL PERIÓDICO after the victory. “He hit very hardbut there has been great progress in my boxing when it comes to defending myself more and covering myself better,” said the boxer. During the fight and despite the passage of rounds, Álvarez has maintained a good guard. Increasingly impenetrable for the 28-year-old Italian, who by the third round seemed to have lost part of her initial strength.
Cecchi, ‘The Russian Hurricane’, He came to the fight for the belt with a record of 10 wins and 2 losses, very similar to Álvarez’s, of 10 wins and only one loss, that of Madison Square Garden in New York. The Italian boxer, left-handed, chose to dislodge the Spaniard with hard blows, without combining more than three fists with which she little by little shortened the distance. The transalpine strikers were efficient blows that at some point cracked Álvarez’s guard, which was initially disconcerted.
More strategy
“Many people had not seen my progress since Madison until now, but the progress is being seen little by little and we have been working with a strategy to learn to better detect when to hit and when to cover myself”, said Álvarez, who has just signed a sponsorship with OnlyFans as announced on Friday after the weigh-in. “It is a dream come true. “I’m satisfied with the fight, although obviously I always want to improve,” she said, her voice marked by the emotion of victory.
The referee of the match, the British Lee Everi, warned the Italian on multiple occasions. By grab by the neck to the Spanish and try to subdue her, attacking like a miura with the head first, using the elbow in an illegal manner and even spitting in the mouth in a moment of tension in which Cecchi opted for dirty play due to the lack of air in a sixth round that seemed sentenced.
Prudence versus resistance
I was aiming for a KO. At least for then. But it was prolonged as many more rounds due to Cecchi’s resistance and Álvarez’s prudence. At the same time, as the minutes progressed, the pressure from the corners also increased, although Toni Moreno did not lose his calm.
The next three assaults were devastating and the exchanges, brutal. The Catalan, who began to get stronger due to the fatigue of her rival, connected several direct hands to Cecchi’s jaw and ribs and she fought back with flying blows and the occasional head charge. The fists, increasingly isolated, seemed not to lose power and the dance on the canvas was increasingly dominated by Álvarez, who ended up taking the victory by 96 to 94 at the discretion of the three table judges.
2024-04-13 23:49:40
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