On to Cairo: Lindenmuth schedules next title quest
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Katherine Lindenmuth, as adventuresome as ever, announced her next scheduled fight on Thursday.
Will she come home from Cairo, Egypt with another professional boxing title, as well as another stamp in her passport?
That鈥檚 the plan. The Bosque Farms battler has signed a contract for a bout against Kazakhstan鈥檚 Angelina Lukas in Cairo on Nov. 14, with the vacant WBA Gold flyweight title at stake.
The bout would be Lindenmuth鈥檚 second trip overseas. She defeated Thailand鈥檚 Pornpimon Pongpaew by second-round TKO in Bangkok on May 31, bringing home the WIBA minimumweight (105-pound) title.
鈥淲e鈥檙e excited to accept another title opportunity and to bring home another win on foreign soil,鈥� Lindenmuth said on Thursday at a news conference held at Rosales Karate & Kickboxing on Edith NE.
On paper, Lukas (15-1, eight knockouts) would appear to be a solid favorite against Lindenmuth (7-5, three KOs). The 28-year-old Kazakhstani fighter has won titles sponsored by five different sanctioning bodies. And note the eight KOs, as opposed to Lindenmuth鈥檚 three.
Anthony Rosales is not impressed.
鈥淚 can say that (Lukas) is not a great boxer,鈥� said Rosales, who鈥檚 been Lindenmuth鈥檚 primary coach for the entirety of her combat-sports career. 鈥淪he wrestles more than she fights.鈥�
Lindenmuth鈥檚 record, meanwhile, belies its strength of schedule. Her five losses have come against boxers with a cumulative record of 52鈥�5. Kim Clavel, who defeated Lindenmuth by unanimous decision in the latter鈥檚 hometown of Montreal in May 2024, was a once-and-again world champion, having defeated Sol Cudos for the IBF minimumweight title on Sept. 27.
As a counterpoint, Lindenmuth鈥檚 most recent bout was her first defeat by stoppage 鈥� a seventh-round loss by TKO against Brook Sibrian on Aug. 2 in San Jacinto, California.
Lindenmuth, 36 and a widowed mother of three, said on Thursday she never contemplated retirement after the Sibrian fight.
鈥淣ot at all,鈥� she said. 鈥淎 loss is never a loss. It鈥檚 always a lesson.
鈥溾�� Sometimes it takes a loss to show you something that you need to work on. And I feel like we came back stronger, and we鈥檙e ready to step it up.鈥�
Rosales, for his part, said he did have concerns after the Sibrian fight that it might be time for Lindenmuth to retire.
He doesn鈥檛 think so now, believing the Sibrian fight came too soon after the title fight in Bangkok. Though the WIBA title fight was an easy one, Rosales said the two fight camps 鈥� for Pongpaew and for Sibrian, bouts separated by 62 days 鈥� didn鈥檛 give Lindenmuth adequate recovery time.
When Lindenmuth steps into the ring against Lukas on Nov. 14, she鈥檒l have had 104 days between fights.
Another concern: the bout in Cairo is for a 112-pound title. Lindenmuth has weighed in that heavy for a fight only once. She weighed 105 pounds for the Sibrian fight.
Lukas, meanwhile, weighed 114 1/4 for her most recent fight, a victory by sixth-round TKO over Chile鈥檚 Daniela Asenjo in a successful defense of Lukas鈥� IBO super flyweight title.
Lindenmuth is undaunted.
鈥淚 do think that when you come up in weight you鈥檙e gonna gain a little bit of strength,鈥� she said.
NO DOUBT, HE鈥橲 BACK: Las Cruces鈥� Austin 鈥淣o Doubt鈥� Trout, the world boxing champion turned bare-knuckle fighter who suffered a broken hand while defeating Carlos Trinidad by split decision on April 4 in Dubai, is scheduled to return on Dec. 5 against Luis Palomino on a BKFC card in Hollywood, Fla.
Trout-Palomino is a rematch of a Feb. 2, 2024 fight won by Trout via unanimous decision. Trout that night won the BKFC welterweight title, which he never lost in the ring. But Julian Lane is now listed as the organization鈥檚 welterweight champion, with Trout listed as the No. 1 challenger.
But forget welterweight. The December Trout-Palomino rematch is one-half of a BKFC lightweight tournament, the winner to face the winner of fight between Franco Tenaglia and Ben Bonner.
