Samaké reclaims WBC Silver belt with unanimous win over Lima

The French boxer beat Lima over 12 rounds on 14 November 2026 at the Palais des Sports Marcel-Cerdan in Levallois-Perret, outside Paris, to take the vacant WBC Silver super-welterweight title. The result restores him to winning ways after his first professional defeat and gives him a belt he has held before. It does not, by itself, settle how far his comeback can carry him.⁠8⁠14⁠17

The distinction matters: unanimous describes agreement on the winner, not agreement on the size of the win. Two judges gave Samaké clear advantages, by nine and five points. The third separated the fighters by just one. Max Boxing, The Ring and La Sueur all report the same three scores, leaving no disagreement in those accounts about the decision itself.⁠8⁠14⁠11

Those totals establish the outcome, but they are not a substitute for a round-by-round explanation. They do not, on their own, tell readers why the assessments diverged so sharply. The sound conclusion is narrower than either “comfortable throughout” or “fortunate to win”: Samaké completed the distance and persuaded all three judges that he had done enough.

There was no knockout or stoppage. Both men reached the final bell, despite entering with 11 knockout victories apiece, according to FightAnnex’s undated, fight-specific listing. That listing gives Samaké an entering record of 19–1 and Lima 16–2; Max Boxing reports their records afterward as 20–1 and 16–3. The win-loss arithmetic is consistent, even though the pre-fight listing is not dated.⁠16⁠8

For Samaké, the immediate achievement is concrete: a twentieth professional victory and an end to the setback of his first loss. A comeback needs a result before it can sustain bigger promises. This one supplies that result over the full championship distance, with all three judges on his side.⁠8⁠14

The Silver title also reconnects him with an earlier success. The WBC records that Samaké first won the crown in November 2024 and successfully defended it against Roarke Knapp with a knockout in April 2025. But that history must not turn the Lima fight into something it was not: November’s contest was for a vacant belt, not another Samaké defense. Nor does the completed-fight reporting establish that Lima arrived as the reigning Silver champion.⁠17⁠8

The advance billing was different. In its 9 June 2026 preview, L’Équipe described the planned matchup as a defense of Lima’s WBC International title. By November, the WBC event listing and the result reports identified the prize as WBC Silver. The later, event-specific accounts supersede that summer description for the purposes of this result; the available reporting does not explain when or why the championship billing changed.⁠18⁠6⁠8

Precision matters here because the names can imply more than the result delivers. Samaké won the WBC Silver championship, a separate distinction from the full WBC world title. His division is super-welterweight. The “-70 kg” wording used in French coverage is rounded shorthand, not an official weigh-in measurement for either boxer.⁠6⁠2⁠14

The date is better established than one conflicting report suggests. The WBC’s event listing and Max Boxing’s result account identify 14 November 2026, as does Ouest-France’s post-fight coverage. RFI instead says “Saturday 15 November” in an article displaying a publication time after midnight on 15 November. That wording conflicts with the supported event date; it is not a reason to move the fight to the following day. The WBC listing confirms the scheduled date and title, but is not an official result sheet.⁠6⁠8⁠4⁠5

What comes next is less definite. No confirmed next opponent or fight date is established in the available reporting. Nor does the result establish a mandatory world-title eliminator or guarantee a world-championship opportunity. Rankings shown in the undated FightAnnex listing should not be mistaken for verified official post-fight positions.⁠16⁠14

That leaves a comeback with substance, rather than a completed journey. Samaké has regained the Silver belt and put a win immediately after his first defeat. The closest card cautions against inflating the performance; the unanimous verdict prevents that caution from obscuring the achievement. He leaves Levallois-Perret with the title, a 20–1 record and a clear result—even if the judges saw very different margins.⁠8⁠14