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Hello and welcome to tonight’s welterweight title fight between Jessica McCaskill and Cecilia Brækhus. Tonight’s four-belt showdown for the undisputed championship at 147lbs is a rematch of their first meeting six months ago, when McCaskill sprang a major upset against Brækhus, the previously unbeaten Norwegian widely regarded as the sport’s pound-for-pound world No 1.
Brækhus, who was attempting to surpass Joe Louis’s record of 25 consecutive successful title defenses and instead settled for a tie with the American legend, strongly hinted at retirement in the immediate aftermath. But several months spent running at home in Norway convinced her to take one crack at winning back the title that she’d held for more than 11 years.
Bryan will be here shortly. In the meantime here’s a look back at last year’s first meeting between McCaskill and Brækhus.
Jessica McCaskill, a 35-year-old investment banker from Chicago who overcame homelessness as a child and moonlights as a professional boxer, sprang a seismic upset on Saturday night in dethroning Cecilia Brækhus, the undisputed welterweight champion widely regarded as the sport’s pound-for-pound world No 1.
The younger and busier American challenger won a narrow 10-round majority decision by scores of 97-94, 97-93 and 95-95 to capture the WBA, WBC, IBF and WBO titles at 147lbs in a purpose-built ring on the streets of downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma. (The Guardian had it 95-95.)
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