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The following is a list of deaths due to injuries sustained in boxing. In February 1995, it was estimated that "approximately 500 boxers have died in the ring or as a result of boxing since the Marquess of Queensberry Rules were introduced in 1884." [1] 22 boxers died in 1953 alone. [1]
Claressa Maria Shields [1] (born March 17, 1995) is an American professional boxer and professional mixed martial artist.She has held multiple world championships in five weight classes, including the undisputed female light middleweight title in March 2021; the undisputed female middleweight title twice between 2019 and 2024, the World Boxing Organization (WBO) female light heavyweight title ...
Boxers who have won 3 or more Olympic medals. Western athletes usually participate in a single Olympic tournament and then turn pro, while boxers from Cuba and other countries with state support of the sport might compete in several Olympics, therefore having a clear advantage in terms of age and experience.
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.
Gonzalez won a bronze medal at the 2023 Pan American Games and qualified for the women's 60 kg event at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. USA Boxing head coach Billy Walsh called her return to form "like Lazarus coming back from the dead." [10] At the Paris Olympics, she bested the French 2016 Olympic gold medalist Estelle Mossely in
The Olympic boxer who failed a gender test, but competed against women at the summer games in Paris was named among the top "Female Athletes of the Year" by the Associated Press. The move has ...
Italian boxer Angela Carini came to the Paris Olympics aiming for a medal to honor her late father and coach, who died shortly after she participated in the Tokyo Games three years ago. The 25 ...
Marlen Esparza (born July 29, 1989) is an American professional boxer who is the former WBC, WBO, WBA and Ring female world flyweight champion. As an amateur, in 2012 she became the first American female boxer to qualify for the Olympics, in the first year that women's boxing was an Olympic event, going on to win a bronze medal in the women's flyweight division at the London Olympics.