By Daniel Leal

Rose Volante, from Sao Paulo, Brazil, conquered the WBO Lightweight title fighting in the Inhospitable environment of Argentina.

The 35 years-old Rose Volante (13-0, 7 KO's), fighting out of Santos, Brazil, became the first Brazilian female to capture a world title this past Friday in San Salvador de Jujuy, Argentina.

She overcame local fighter Brenda “La Pumita” Carabajal (13-4-1, 9 KO's) to grab the vacant belt by majority decision.

Volante knocked Brenda down at the end of the very first round after an aggressive start. Carabajal came back but went down again in the second.

The Argentinean recovered well but was punched out during the final part of the contest. Even though most of the media saw the fight as a clear 97-91 win for Volante, including Argentina's broadcast team from Tyc Sports, the three judges scored 95-93, 94-93, in favor of Volante, and an unexplainable 94-94.

If “The Queen”, as she is called Brazil, didn't score two knockdowns, she would have been robbed of the decision.

The situation was created due to that fact that the WBO allowed the three judges and the referee to be from the same country of the local contestant and, worse than that, there is no mention of any kind of punishment over the scoring.

Rose started to box nine years ago, because she was obese and just wanted to lose some weight. After losing almost 100 pounds she conquered the Sao Paulo State Amateur Championship four times, and the Brazilian Championship three times.

Volante was Adriana Araujo's backup in the 2012's London Olympic Games, in which Araujo took the bronze medal.

After that she turned pro and held the WBC Latino belt for two years, she became the number one contender for that sanctioning body. It was the WBO, though, that gave her the shot at world glory.

Now she becomes the fifth Brazilian to hold at least one world title from one of the four major organizations in boxing, alongside with Eder Jofre, Acelino “Popo” Freitas, Miguel de Olveira and Valdemir “Sertao” Pereira. More than that, she expects to became a pioneer and the new star that Brazil needs to raise women’s boxing to a new level.