FINALLY! HOLM VS SANDERS
By Andy Rivera - NewMexicoSportsNews.com
Photo By Tom Hernandez

ALBUQUERQUE (March 13, 2008) –  Today at Isleta Casino on the second leg of the media press tour to announce the Jr. Middleweight title fight between Holly Holm and Mary Jo Sanders. Wednesday the tour started off in Detroit, where Sanders resides, today in Albuquerque and will finish up in Las Vegas Friday.

Not much fireworks from the two combatants, but their trainers had plenty to say. Mike Winkeljohn Holm's trainer felt it would be a great fight "If" Sanders shows up. "I have reservations that Sanders really wants to fight and when I start hear she is having ankle problems, I'm not to sure she will be here June 13th." Sanders trainer Jimmy Mallo countered by saying, "Holm hasn't seen anything like Mary Jo, ever and when she takes the title from Holm in her home town the boxing people will know Mary Jo is the best pound for pound!" Holm and Sanders will fight June 13th at Isleta Casino for the IFBA Jr Middleweight title, the card will be shown on PPV.  Three other women's title's will be on the line

Chevelle Hallback (26-5-2, 11 KOs) will defend her IFBA lightweight title against Jeannine Garside (7-0-1, 3 KOs); Los Angeles' Wendy Rodriguez (18-4, 3 KOs) and Hollie Dunaway (21-6, 10 KOs), of Van Buren, Arkansas, battle for the IFBA strawweight belt; and, in a ten-round flyweight bout, Eileen Olszewski (5-0-1) will fight an opponent TBA. Also slated will be a four-rounder between debuters Angelica "Danger Girl" Chavez, of Albuquerque, and El Paso's Alina Baltizar.