Boxing: WBA recognizes Lindenmuth as champion

As far as the World Boxing Association is concerned, Bosque Farms’ Katherine Lindenmuth said on Wednesday, she is the WBA Gold super flyweight champion. She‘s listed as such on the organization’s website.

It thus appears she’ll get to keep the title belt she brought home from Egypt last month.

“It is confirmed with the WBA,” Lindenmuth wrote Wednesday morning on social media, “that I hold the world super flyweight Gold title.”

An attempt by the Journal to reach the WBA, headquartered in Panama, on Wednesday was unsuccessful.

Now, for Lindenmuth, two issues remain: the listing on boxrec.com of her Nov. 14 title bout in Giza, Egypt, against Kazakhtstan’s Angelina Lukas, which reflects the result as no contest, and the small matter of her paycheck.

After the bout, which Lindenmuth won by split decision, Lukas’ camp complained to the Egyptian Professional Boxing Association that Lindenmuth had not taken a mandatory doping test on site. Lindenmuth and her trainer, Anthony Rosales, said after their arrival back in Albuquerque that they had left the arena in haste because they felt threatened by a hostile, pro-Lukas faction at the venue.

Lindenmuth said she underwent a doping test soon after arrival back home but said Wednesday morning that she didn’t know if that was even an issue for the WBA. There was a WBA supervisor in attendance at the bout in Giza, though that person‘s name was not available on Wednesday.

Event promoter Taryel Jafarov, who also is Lukas’ trainer and manager, lodged a complaint with the EPBA. On boxrec.com, the sport’s official record-keeper, the Lukas-Lindenmuth fight is listed as no contest with the following notation: “Result initially announced as a split decision win for Lindenmuth but following an investigation by EPBA the decision was changed to a no-contest.”

Lindenmuth said she and Rosales are attempting to get the boxrec listing changed.

“Or even if they will because (the Lukas camp) went around the commission and complained,” she said. “But the ruling with the WBA is that I won.”

The Journal was unable to find any contact information for the EPBA.

Boxrec.com lists Lindenmuth’s record as 7-5 with one no contest. The victory over Lukas, if and when recognized, would make her record 8-5.

Lukas is listed on boxrec.com as 15-1 with one no contest, rather than 15-2.

Lindenmuth has yet to be paid the contracted amount of $5,000. She accepted the bout believing she’d be fighting for the WBA Gold flyweight (112-pound) title and learned only upon arrival in Cairo that the bout was for the super flyweight (115-pound) belt.

Lindenmuth normally campaigns at 105 or 108 pounds.

Lukas, meanwhile, was in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, where she defeated Tanzania’s Engine Kayanga (12-9, eight KOs) by TKO on Wednesday for the World Boxing Federation super flyweight title.