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Boxing: 2000–2009 Marcela Acuña Argentina: 55 kilograms (121 lb) Super Bantamweight: Boxing: 1997– Nicola Adams England: 51 kilograms (112 lb) Flyweight: Boxing: 1995–2019 Retired. Meltem Akar Turkey: 48 kilograms (106 lb) Super bantamweight: Boxing: 2006– Lena Åkesson Sweden: 59 kilograms (130 lb) Lightweight: Boxing: 1997–1999 ...
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 ...
Apart from one fight in Panama in 2012 all of her fights have taken place in either Argentina or Uruguay. She won the WBA 's female world lightweight championship in 2012 by defeating the Dominican Republic 's Maribel Santana by first-round technical knockout when the Caribbean boxer had to retire due to injury on May 30, 2012 in Panama City ...
World Boxing Association (WBA), founded in 1921 as the National Boxing Association (NBA); re-named as the WBA in 1962; World Boxing Council (WBC), founded in 1963; International Boxing Federation (IBF), founded in 1983; World Boxing Organization (WBO), founded in 1988; International Boxing Organization (IBO), founded in 1992
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 23 February 2025. For men's edition, see List of current world boxing champions.
The all-time lineal heavyweight champions boxing list started in 1885 and includes Jack Dempsey, Joe Louis, Muhammad Ali and Mike Tyson among others.
The first women's boxing match to headline Madison Square Garden, described as the 'biggest women's fight of all time', [28] was held on April 30, 2022, between Katie Taylor and Serrano, with Taylor's undisputed lightweight titles on the line. [29] [30] Taylor defeated Serrano by split decision in what was named Fight of the Year by Sports ...
Boxer Imane Khelif of Algeria advanced to the gold-medal bout in the women’s welterweight division at the Paris Olympics on Tuesday night, moving one win away from what she calls the best ...