Oshoba boasts ahead WBC title bout

Nigerian boxer, Elizabeth Oshoba, is confident of clinching the WBC silver featherweight title when she battles Italian boxer Michela Braga on Saturday (today) at the Royal Arena in Copenhagen, Denmark, Saturday PUNCH reports.

At the weigh-in on Friday, Oshoba weighed 56.9kg while Braga weighed 56.8kg.

This will be the third time Oshoba will face an Italian in the ring in five months as she defeated another Italian Martina Reighi November 25, 2023, to win the International Boxing female super-featherweight title.

Oshoba (6-0-0-3KOs) also defeated Italian Nadia Flalhi (5-3-0-1KOs) on points in a six-round featherweight clash on September 30, 2023, and in March she beat Briton, Kirsty Hill, by points 58-56.

This makes her clash against Braga her fourth fight in 11 months as she aims to become the first female Nigerian world champion in boxing.

In the amateurs, Oshoba won the 2022 Commonwealth Games silver medal before switching to pro, where she has been perfect winning all her six professional bouts, half of the victories coming by way of knockouts and is ranked number one in Nigeria and seventh in the world, according to BoxRec among super-featherweights.

Braga also has a perfect pro career, winning all six of her fights and although she has never won any by knockouts, the 33-year-old is a threat in the ring. She is ranked number two in Italy and 24 in the world among featherweights.

Speaking to Saturday PUNCH ahead of the bout, Oshoba said, “Tomorrow is the show time and I am feeling good right now, feeling very good.

“I have trained and prepared for this fight, so I am sure that I am claiming the WBC title after that fight.”