Loly Munoz has a few more wins that we just added. one was a win wich had inadvetently been misrecorded as a loss .

thus she's more like 14-4.

I have an email into her now, to triple check.

Ms Munoz is mainly an oriental rules fighter-that means knees with limited clinching (usually broken apart after 5-7 seconds by the refs if he/she deems theres no real meaningful action) and of course, no elbows or knees to head.

In her first ever Muay Thai bout earlier this year, Loly "Sugar" Munoz went the distance with Germaine de Randamie. so this lady is enormously talented and she's for real.

She has never been stopped-even by Germaine. So Julie will have her hands full and will be a very worthy Champion indeed if she manages to defeat Loly Munoz-Garcia.

BTW: The WIKBA ratings for september are way past due and will be out monday evening. We have had a very difiicult time getting in touch with all our rankings advisors, who are in a number of different countries spread over Europe, North America, Asia, Australia, and New Zealand. That many reps giving advoce and nominations takes time and effort to get together and then reach some kind of consensus.

We have just (finally ) found someone who has just recently agreed to be our Thailand advisor-but she is very busy at the moment, so Thai
women may once again be somewhat under represented in our september ratings coming out monday. But we are happy to know that trend will finally change as we start ascertaining proper passport names for all Thai women who fight.

each time we update the ratings the ratings become more accurate as we gain more fight results worldwide, and receive new data on fighters some who already ranked-and also new fighters sending in profiles from countries where we have historically not had a represntative, or contact person.

Thai fighters sadly, still pose a huge ranking dilemna because of the ubiqitous use of ring names in Thailand. WIKBA will not rank anyone unless we have a full passport name. (real first and last name)

I hope the WBC will be equally responsible when they begin their womens rankings next year. Its easy to be publicly embarrassed if you rank the same person twice under different names-whether they are using ring names or married vs Maiden names, etc. Its essential to an orgs credibility to have a positive ID, anda passport name on all ranked fighters.

(this kind of embarrassing fiasco happened to another org, who didnt follow our policy of positive identification. (wont name any names here)

WIKBA believes that to not insist on positive identification befoe ranking a fighter is irresonsible; and also enables abuse and fight record fraud. That is slowly changing, but the practice still prevents many extremely talented Thai women from gaining the world wide recognition we believe they deserve.

dan