The 26-year-old previously held the European super-middleweight title but stepped up a division to claim the fringe WBO intercontinental light-heavyweight title against Sergey Demchenko last August.
It means Caroline Pla, the 11-year oldpreviously written about here who spent the last two years on the Bucks County, PA, Romans junior varsity CYO football team and who became the poster child for this discrimination controversy when she was banned from playing further based solely on her gender, can sign up for the varsity squad and try for another All-Star season.