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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 4 February 2025. For men's edition, see List of current world boxing champions.
[2] [3] She made boxing history, as she became the first boxing champion from the Inland Empire region in Southern California. [1] West successfully defended her title against Ava Knight (split decision draw) on 18 June 2011, Jessica Villafranca (unanimous decision win) on 20 August 2011 and Claudia Andrea Lopez (majority decision win) on 14 ...
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 ...
Boxing magazine The Ring has awarded world championships in men's professional boxing within each weight class from its foundation in 1922 until the 1990s, and again since 2001. In 2019 they began awarding world championships to women, however, the publication did not begin producing monthly female divisional rankings until August 2020.
It was a good year for the women and just six months later, Marshall met Claressa Shields at the O2 in front of nearly 20,000 fans. On a glorious night on the Greenwich Peninsula, there were 11 ...
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.
Shields, who also won gold medals at the 2012 and 2016 Olympics, landed a powerful right hand with seconds to go in the 10th and final round, knocking down Perkins and improving her professional ...
In Los Angeles in 2018, she fought the Australian Louisa Hawton and won the world champion title with the Atomweight class in the World Boxing Council. [4] [6] [7] [8] She retained the title the following year. [9] She had 16 victories, 4 losses and a tie during her career. [1] [10] [11]