Brisbane’s Deanha Hobbs picks up IBF world light-welterweight title shot against US champion Mary McGee

Deanha ‘Deedee’ Hobbs gets a chance for redemption just eight months after her first world title shot ended in defeat when she faces US champion Mary McGee for the IBF world light-welterweight title.

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Brisbane’s one-woman wrecking machine Deanha ‘Deedee’ Hobbs will have her second shot at a world title when she challenges for the International Boxing Federation female world light-welterweight title in the United States on February 8.

The hard-as-nails scrapper made a career out of tearing cars apart in a wrecking yard at Seventeen Miles Rocks. but cares for stray animals and injured wildlife in her spare time.

She will face “Merciless” Mary McGee near the world champ’s hometown of Gary, Indiana, about 40 kilometres from Chicago.

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Deanha Hobbs is fighting for a world title in February.

Hobbs, known as ”The Silencer’’, will be fighting to join Kingscliff’s Commonwealth Games gold medallist Andrew Moloney and Perth’s New York-based Louisa Hawton as Australia’s current world boxing champs.

Sydney’s charismatic “blonde bomber’’ Ebanie Bridges, a high school maths teacher, former bodybuilder and now undefeated bantamweight boxer, will make her US debut on the Hobbs-McGee undercard.

Gary, Indiana is the birthplace of Michael Jackson and the Jackson 5 music group but it is better known as a tough city because of its many steel mills.

In Mary McGee it has produced a ferocious champion who has a record of 26 wins in 29 fights.

McGee won the world title in New York three weeks ago when she stopped Argentina’s Ana Laura Esteche.

Hobbs has a record of eight wins in nine fights, having lost on points in her last start when she challenged Greek world champ Christina “Medusa’’ Linardatou for the World Boxing Organisation lightwelter title at the Olympic Hall in Athens in June.

Ebanie Bridges is the heading to the US to fight on the Hobbs-McGee undercard.

On the same card as Hobbs-McGee, “Medusa’’ Linardatou is aiming to regain the WBO championship that she lost to Irish Olympic gold medallist Katie Taylor in November.

Soon after the win, Taylor relinquished the belt in favour of retaining her world lightweight crown.

“Medusa” will face Prisca Vicot of France on the February 8 card.

Meanwhile, as Michael Zerafa mulls over an official protest against the referee’s calls in his loss to Jeff Horn in Brisbane last week, Japanese Olympic gold medallist Ryota Murata is celebrating after he retained his WBA middleweight title by crushing Canada’s Steven Butler in the fifth round before a crowd of 9500 in Yokohama, Japan.

Horn rejected a purse of $2 million to challenge Murata in July so that he could be at the birth of his daughter Charlotte.

He was battered to defeat by Zerafa in Bendigo on August 31 for a fraction of that purse.

Michael Zerafa had to angrily forego a world title chance against Ryota Murata.

Zerafa’s win that night earned him an $800,000 shot at Murata but he had to angrily forego the world title chance in favour of Butler as Horn enforced a rematch clause. Zerafa eventually earned just $120,000 and a beating against Horn last week.

In other news, Andres Campos, who was recently in Kingscliff helping world super-fly champ Andrew Moloney and twin brother Jason prepare for fights, won a South American regional flyweight title in Chile by outpointing Venezuela’s Jesus Martinez.

The fast-rising Chilean sensation is part of a big Kingscliff stable that includes the Moloney twins as well as world-rated Billel Dib and Tanzanian Bruno Tarimo.