Boxing Champion Yessica "Kika" Chávez

Yessica "Kika" Chávez ended the year in a great way. In September she defeated Arely "Ametralladora" Muciño with authority and became the flyweight champion of the World Boxing Council.

As a good champion, she wanted to have a defense before the year ended so she wouldn't lose her momentum. And the chosen opponent was the Italian Simona Galassi, another great warrior who once dethroned a Mexican (Mariana Juárez) and wanted to repeat the action.

However, things didn't turn out as expected because besides the dominance that "Kika" imposed on Simona, an accidental headbutt from the Frenchwoman stopped the actions prematurely.

Chávez was effective hitting Galassi

Press Release Promociones del Pueblo

World champion Yessica "Kika" Chavez successfully debuted the flyweight crown of the World Boxing Council by defeating Italian double champion Simona Galassi at the BlackBerry Auditorium in Mexico City before an impressive audience in the modern venue of Condesa.

The event was broadcast live in millions of homes through the signal of the traditional "Boxing Saturdays" on Televisa Deportes, which registers high levels of audience every week; in a mega-production by Promociones del Pueblo with the support of Playboy Mexico.

La "Kika" demostró que es una buena campeona

After the first round was announced, which was dominated widely by the boxer from Mexico State, desperation took hold of Simona, who, struggling against the current, became even more vulnerable to Chávez's counterattacks. Chávez threw effective combinations that hurt the "Reina de Romagna".

Galassi started to lose her calm and entered with her head down, and due to the clashing guards, clashes with heads became increasingly frequent and marked on both faces.

In the ninth round, another frontal clash caused a deep gash in Simona's eyebrow, so the attending physician had to intervene to determine the risk of the wound, and decided to stop the fight after 45 seconds, declaring a technical decision and causing the crowded crowd to explode in jubilation in support of "Kika".