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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 28 January 2025. For men's edition, see List of current world boxing champions.
As professional boxing has four major sanctioning bodies (WBA, WBC, IBF, WBO) each with their own champions, the sport doesn't have a centralized ranking system.The rankings published by these organizations share the trait of not ranking the other organizations' champions, as each one of the sanctioning bodies expects their champion to frequently defend their title against their top-ranked ...
On 9 August 2024, Algerian boxer Imane Khelif defeated Yang Liu of China in the final to win an Olympic gold medal. [37] [38] Khelif therefore became Algeria's first female gold medalist in boxing, as well as the country's first boxer of any gender to win a medal since Mohamed Allalou in 2000 [39] and the first to win a gold medal since Hocine Soltani in 1996.
Claressa Shields often wears a necklace that says "G.W.O.A.T." — standing for "Greatest Woman Of All Time." Pretty soon, Shields might drop the W, after her latest "W" in the ring Saturday night ...
The following is a list of WBC female world champions certificated by the World Boxing Council (WBC). Stand: June 3, 2020. r – Champion relinquished title. s – Champion stripped of title. On July 30, 2011, Ana María Torres won the first female Diamond Belt by defeating Jackie Nava at Bantamweight. [1]
Uppercut in counterpunch. The uppercut (formerly known as the undercut) is a punch used in boxing that starts low and travels upwards vertically aiming at the opponent's chin or upper abdomen (so-called "solar plexus"). [1] [2] It is, along with the cross, one of the two main punches that count in the statistics as power punches. [citation needed]
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Seniesa Carmen Estrada (/ s ɪ ˈ n iː s ə /; born June 26, 1992) is an American former professional boxer who won the WBA female minimumweight title in March 2021, the WBC and Ring female minimumweight titles in March 2023, and the IBF and WBO female minimumweight titles in March 2024.