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This is a list of notable female kickboxers. This list shows kickboxers and professional competitors of other martial arts such as bama-lethwei ( burmese boxing ), kickboxing , pradal serey (khmer boxing), sanshou (sanda), savate boxing and shoot boxing .
In the 1970s women in the United States took up kickboxing as they were prevented from taking part in women's boxing. [8] In the UK kickboxing has a growing following according to the WMC. [9] In May 2016 the kickboxing organisation Glory announced the creation of a women's division built around Tiffany van Soest. [10]
Jorina Baars (born 18 October 1988) is a Dutch female Muay Thai kickboxer, based in Den Helder, Netherlands.She has competed professionally since 2004 and is the current ISKA Welterweight World Muay Thai champion, Lion Fight Women's World Welterweight Champion and the Enfusion Women's Featherweight Champion.
Karyn Turner, circa 1977. Karyn Turner (born 1946) is an American martial arts expert who has been variously known as “The Queen of Kata”, [1] “First Lady of Kung Fu”, [2] and “The Mother of U.S. Kickboxing”. [3]
Arina Kobayashi (Japanese: 小林愛理奈, Kobayashi Arina, born 2 November 2000) is a Japanese kickboxer. She is the current RISE Women's Mini Flyweight champion.. As of November 2023, she was ranked the #3 ranked Flyweight and Strawweight kickboxer as well as the #10 pound for pound female kickboxer in the world by Beyond Kickboxing.
Kira Matsutani (Japanese: 松谷綺, Matsutani Kira, born 1 June 2003) is a Japanese kickboxer, currently competing in the atomweight division of K-1, where she is the current Krush Atomweight champion.
A professional competitor since 2015, she is the 2019 K-1 Women's Flyweight Grand Prix winner and two-time Krush Women's Flyweight champion. She is the #9 ranked female kickboxer in the world by Combat Press, as of November 2020, [ 4 ] and has been ranked in the top ten since June 2018.
erika made her first RISE Women's Mini Flyweight title defense against the one-time RISE Women's Atomweight title challenger Arina Kobayashi at RISE 173 on November 18, 2023. [23] She lost the fight by a second-round technical knockout. [24] On October 7, 2024, erika announced her retirement as kickboxer. [25]