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BERTAL IN FINALS! AFRICA ASSURED OF SILVER OR GOLD
Morocco’s showboating two-time Africa bantamweight champion Widad Bertal danced her way to the finals of Women’s World Boxing Championships with a split points victory over Serbia’s 20-year-old European champion Sarah Cirkovic in the semi-finals on Friday, Match 14, in Nis, Serbia.
An ecstatic and emotional Bertal jumped up in joy punching the air to celebrate the deserving victory.
The Moroccan Paris Olympian rallied back strongly in the third round feeding the Serbian with a cocktail of punches led by her probing jab.
With that victory, Bertal becomes the second Moroccan female boxer to punch her way to the finals of the World Championships after the charismatic world heavyweight champion Khadija Mardi.
She’s also assured of pocketing $25,000 for silver or $100,000 for a gold medal.
The Serbian bathed in her tears unable to believe she has missed the finals at home. She will console herself with $25,000 for semi- finalists.
