Hannah Rankin. Picture by Ed Mulholland/ Matchroom Boxing USA
The fourth time was the allure for Hannah Rankin.
The well-traveled Scottish contender defeated Maria Lindberg by unanimous choice Friday to win the vacant WBA girls’s junior middleweight title on the Tottenham Hotspur FC Banqueting Corridor in London, England.
The scores had been 97-93 on two playing cards and 98-92 on a 3rd, all for Rankin (11-5, 2 knockouts), who now lives and trains in London.
The 44-year-old Lindberg (19-8-2, 10 KOs) of Malmo, Sweden has now fallen quick in six makes an attempt at a world title.
Rankin, 31, had beforehand challenged Alicia Napoleon, Claressa Shields and Savannah Marshall earlier than successful a world title. Previous to boxing, Rankin performed in orchestras as a bassoonist, and labored as a music instructor at distinction faculties in London and India.
Additionally on the cardboard, Michael Gomez Jr. (15-1, 5 KOs) gained his sixth straight bout, stopping Sufyaan Ahmed (5-2) at 59 seconds of the fourth spherical. Gomez, whose father is the favored former contender Michael “The Irish Mexican” Gomez Sr., was boxing in his first ten-round schedule bout.
