- Laila Ali
Laila Ali (born December 30, 1977 in Miami Beach) is the daughter of Muhammad Ali and his third wife Veronica Porsche Ali. She was their second child and is the most famous of the nine children born to Muhammad Ali. Laila has a degree in business from Santa Monica College and previously owned a nail salon in California before becoming a boxer. - Christy Martin
Christy Martin (born June 12, 1968) is a female boxer. Martin, who is married to her manager and trainer Jim Martin and promoted by Don King, is nicknamed "The Coal Miner's Daughter". Martin grew up in Mullens, West Virginia where Martin's father, John, was a coal miner, and her mother, Joyce, is a homemaker. Martin was born in Bluefield, West Virginia in 1968. - Mia St. John
Mia Rosales St. John (born June 24, 1967) is an American professional boxer, model, businesswoman, and a Tae Kwon Do champion. St. John, a Mexican-American born in San Francisco, California attended California State University, earning a degree in Psychology. While a student, she compiled a Tae Kwon Do record of 27-1, was awarded a black belt, and worked as a model to fund her education. She married Kristoff St. John, star of "Young and the Restless", … - Lucia Rijker
Lucia Rijker (born December 6, 1967 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch professional female boxer and kickboxer. Lucia Rijker has been dubbed by the press and opponents "The Most Dangerous Woman in the World". Lucia speaks four languages, is a Buddhist and dedicates time daily to meditation and chanting. Her mother was born in the Netherlands and her father was born in Suriname, in South America. Lucia Rijker is one of the most accomplished athletes in the world. - Ann Wolfe
Ann Wolfe (born January 17, 1971) is a female boxer who holds world titles in three different weight classes simultaneously. Wolfe is regarded by many within the sport as the hardest puncher in women's boxing. Wolfe has been mentioned frequently as a possible opponent for Laila Ali, but both women's management teams have not been able to reach an economic agreement for the fight to take place. - Regina Halmich
Regina Halmich (born November 22, 1976) is a popular female boxer from Germany. Halmich, alongside Deirdre Gogarty of Ireland and Michelle Sutcliffe of England among others, has helped popularize female boxing in Europe. She has also become a sex symbol and television personality in her native country. Halmich was German champion as an amateur in 1992, 1993 and 1994, a year in which she also earned the European title. As a professional, she has boxed in the Jr. Flyweight, … - Hilary Swank
Hilary Ann Swank is a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress. Her Hollywood film career began with a small part in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (1992) and then a major part in "The Next Karate Kid" (1994), where she played Julie Pierce, the first female protégé of the sensei Mr. Miyagi. She has become known for her two Oscar-winning performances: first as Brandon Teena, a transgender man in the movie "Boys Don't Cry", … - Valerie Mahfood
Valerie Rebecca Mahfood (born February 1, 1974 in Beaumont, Texas) is a female boxer who is a former world Super Middleweight and Light Heavyweight champion. Known as "The Wolfe", Mahfood is known in the boxing world by her brawling style of fighting, and by her purple mohawk. Mahfood began boxing professionally July 27, 1997, knocking out Jeanne Martinez in the first round, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. - Chevelle Hallback
Chevelle Hallback (born September 3, 1971) is a female boxer from Tampa, Florida. Hallback, nicknamed "Fist of Steel", has been featured on television many times, usually fighting the biggest names in the sport. Hallback is among the most recognized female boxers in the world. Hallback began her professional boxing career on February 21, 1997, beating Connie Plosser by a first round knockout in Miami. In just her second fight, Hallback faced Lucia Rijker, … - Sumya Anani
Sumya Anani (born February 12, 1972) is one of the top fighters in the sport of women's boxing. Anani, like many women's boxers, came to the sport in a roundabout fashion. While living in Kansas City in the early 1990s and working as a massage therapist, she took a course in self-defense. When she impressed her instructor with her athletic ability and powerful punch, he encouraged Anani to give boxing a try. - Belinda Laracuente
Belinda Laracuente (born 1980) is a women's boxing competitor who hails from Puerto Rico. Her nickname is "Brown Sugar". Laracuente's debut as a professional boxer came against Karen Nye, whom Laracuente beat. Soon, she would fight former world champion Cora Webber, but she lost that fight. She got back into the winning track until, on October 10, 1999, she had to settle for a draw in four rounds with Jeanne Martinez. After winning her next fight, she went to Bay St. - Alicia Ashley
Alicia Ashley (born August 23, 1967) is a women's boxing participant who is a former world Super Bantamweight champion. Ashley is a Jamaican-American. Born in Jamaica, she moved to the United States at a young age. Ashley began her professional boxing career on January 29, 1999, defeating Lisa Howarth by a six round split decision, at Atlantic City, New Jersey. On her second professional boxing fight, held at Halifax, Canada, she suffered her first defeat, … - Vonda Ward
Vonda Ward (born March 16, 1973 in Macedonia, Ohio) is a female boxer who was also a very well known NCAA basketball player. Ward is nicknamed "The All American Girl", as many people who meet her in person have expressed that she looks a little like Jane Fonda. - Hollie Dunaway
Hollie "Hot Stuff" Dunaway from Van Buren, Arkansas was born on October 18, 1984. Dunaway is a world-class female professional boxer. She fights out of Fort Smith, Arkansas, under the tutelage of Brian Jones. Dunaway had no amateur background before she turned professional. She became interested in boxing by watching other female boxers training at the World Class Fitness Center in Fort Smith, … - Laura Serrano
Laura Serrano is a Mexican boxer. Serrano almost became a boxer by default, but soon she showed she was born with the talent to become a champion. She began boxing at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma Nacional in Mexico City, where she was studying to become a lawyer. She wanted to lose weight and stay in shape. She fell in love with boxing so much that soon, she was applying for a professional boxer's license in Mexico. - Jeannine Garside
Jeannine Garside (born April 14, 1978) is a rising star in the sport of women's boxing. After a long and distinguished amateur career, Garside has made her presence felt as a professional, winning the WIBA Super Bantamweight World Title in just her 4th pro bout. Garside began boxing as an amateur in Duncan, British Columbia, Canada after seeing Christy Martin fight Deirdre Gogarty on a Mike Tyson undercard in March 1996. - Bonnie Canino
Bonnie Canino (born 11 January 1962) is a former women's boxing world Featherweight champion for two different associations who also won world titles in kick boxing for two different associations. The native of Miami, Florida, beat such important challengers as Gloria Ramirez, Nora Daigle and Sue Chase in her career. She also lost bouts to Chevelle Hallback and Alicia Ashley. - Jackie Chavez
Jackie Chavez is a female boxer from Las Cruces, New Mexico. She is the IFBA world Super Bantamweight champion, and considered by many to be one of women's boxing's future stars. As far as it is known, she has no relation with Mexican boxing legend Julio César Chávez. Chavez began her professional boxing career on October 5, 2001, when, at the age of eighteen, she knocked out the more experienced Brandy Leon in three rounds at Acoma, New Mexico. - Ada Velez
Ada "Ace" Velez (born September 15, 1970) is a Puerto Rican female professional boxer who lives in Hollywood, Florida. A former gang member, Velez was brought into boxing by former women's boxing world champion Bonnie Canino. After a successful undefeated amateur career that included a national title, Velez became the first Puerto Rican to win a women's world boxing championship on January 19, 2001, … - Leatitia Robinson
Leatitia "Baby Girl" Robinson (born September 30 1980) is the undefeated WIBA Middleweight Champion of the World in women's boxing. Robinson was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1980. She began boxing at age 14 to survive in Cabrini Green public housing projects. She was involved with numerous street fights growing up, and would often beat up large men in these encounters. Robinson won her first Golden Gloves competition in 1995. - Yvonne Caples
Yvonne Caples (born June 14, 1972) is a women's boxing champion. She was born in Pune, India, country where she has helped raise the sport's popularity. Caples lives in Las Vegas, where she trains under the tutelage of former men's world Heavyweight title challenger Leroy Caldwell. Caples attends the University of California, Berkeley when she is not preparing for a fight. She hopes to become a medical doctor in sports medicine, and she has a B.A. in English, … - Monica Nunez
Monica Nunez (born October 12, 1976 in the Dominican Republic), is a female boxer who is, as of 2005, one of the world's top ranked fighters in the Super Middleweight division. Much like Rain Mako, Marcela Acuna and Laura Serrano, to name a few, Nunez is one of the few women's boxing participants from her home country who are relatively well known by her countrymen and women; this may be partly due to the general public's view of boxing as a male only sport. - Barbara Buttrick
"Battling" Barbara Buttrick was a world champion in women's boxing in the 1940s and 50s. Originally from England, Buttrick is considered a pioneer of women's professional boxing. In the mid-1990s, she founded and became the president of the Women's International Boxing Federation (WIBF) which is a major sanctioning body of women's boxing. She retired in 1960 at 30–1–1. - Deirdre Gogarty
Deirdre Gogarty (born November 10, 1969) is a female boxer who was born in Drogheda,Ireland. Because of legal issues regarding women's boxing in her native country, Gogarty currently cannot engage in competition there, and now she fights out of New Orleans, Louisiana. However, before the law was passed in Ireland preventing women from engaging in boxing events, she was able to begin her career there, with a six round decision win versus Anne-Marie Griffin. - Jackie Kallen
Jackie Kallen , California USA As co-star of the NBC reality show, "The Contender," Jackie Kallen does what she loves best-interact with boxers. After 26 years in the boxing world as publicist and then manager, Kallen has been dubbed "The First Lady of Boxing. Having managed four champions, she was twice nominated as Manager of the Year. Her life story inspired the Paramount film "Against the Ropes" starring Meg Ryan. - Freeda Foreman
Freeda George Foreman (born October 16, 1976 in Houston, Texas) is the daughter of former world Heavyweight champion George Foreman, and a former competitor in the sport of Women's boxing. After Laila Ali and Jackie Frazier-Lyde (daughters of Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier, respectively), became professional boxers, Freeda Foreman decided to pursue boxing herself, hoping that her last name, and the fact that George Foreman fought both Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier, … - Bridgett Riley
Bridgett Riley (born May 13, 1973) is a female boxer from Oakville, Missouri. While working as a stewardess for an airline she decided to learn martial arts. The interest in the sport came from her brother Patrick's strong interest in mixed martial arts. She trained with her brother and a number of other high-profile martial artists early in her career. Notably, she was trained by former three time world kickboxing champion, Jim Boucher (Belleville, IL). - Ryan Wissow
Ryan Wissow was born November 26 1974 in Chicago, IL. As a young child, he and his family relocated to Fort Lauderdale, FL, where he became interested in a variety of sports, including martial arts and boxing. Wissow had 12 amateur boxing fights with a 10-2 record from 1990 to 1994, in addition to an undetermined number of "smokers bouts", underground fights, and amateur kickboxing fights. In 1991, Wissow relocated to Daytona Beach, Florida, where he met Christy Martin, … - Jackie Frazier-Lyde
Jackie Frazier-Lyde (born January 4, 1962) is a lawyer who is the daughter of former world Heavyweight boxing champion Joe Frazier. In the year 2000, she shocked the boxing world by announcing that at the age of 38, she would begin participating in the sport of Women's boxing. Frazier-Lyde had athletic experience, having played basketball at American University in Washington, … - Leona Brown
Leona Brown (born July 27, 1960) is a female boxer who is the WIBC world Bantamweight champion. Because of her age, many consider her to be "the George Foreman of women's boxing". Brown's nickname, "Downtown", is both a homage to actress Downtown Julie Brown, and it also serves as name play, such as in the case of "Hannah The Vegas Fox". A native of Buffalo, New York, she now lives in Pawling, also a New York state city. - Melissa del Valle
Melissa Del Valle (born June 2, 1969) in New York City, is a multiple champion in the sport of women's boxing, both at the amateur and professional levels. A member of a sports-minded family of Puerto Rican immigrants, Del Valle took up boxing in the early 1990s, while her older brother Lou Del Valle was making a name for himself as a light-heavyweight boxer. Then fighting under her married name of Melissa Salamone, … - Daisy Lang
Dessislava Kirova (born April 4 1972 in Sofia, Bulgaria), better known as Daisy "The Lady" Lang, is a professional female boxer. She was GBU world champion in Super Bantamweight in 2003, WIBF world champion in Super Flyweight from 1999 to 2003, and is residing GBU world champion in Bantamweight. Before she started her boxing career, she was world champion in karate 1995, European champion in kickboxing 1994 and world champion in 1995. - Maribel Zurita
Maribel "Little Thunder" Zurita (born January 14, 1979) is the WIBA Light Flyweight World Champion and former IFBA Flyweight World Champion in women's boxing. She fights out of San Antonio, Texas and is trained by Tony Ayala Sr. Zurita made her pro boxing debut on July 31, 2001 at Sunset Station in San Antonio, Texas, easily winning a four-round decision over debut fighter Anna Mora. According to a ringside report from Esteban Erik Stipnieks, … - Martha Salazar
Martha Salazar (born February 2, 1970) is a female boxer who hails from San Francisco, California. Salazar, whose global boxing ID is US-CA-061872, fights as a Heavyweight. She is the WIBF's world Heavyweight champion. Her nickname is "The Shadow". Salazar became the third Hispanic to become world Heavyweight champion in all of boxing's history, and the second one in women's boxing history. - Delia Gonzalez
Delia 'Chikita' Gonzalez is one of today's best flyweights in the sport of women's boxing. Born November 20, 1970 in New Mexico, she sports a record of 13-9-4 with 3 knockout wins, although several of her losses have been controversial. A Mexican-American, Delia started going to the gym when she was little, taken by her father, and soon she earned the nickname "Chikita", after her favorite boxer, … - Tracy Byrd
Tracy Byrd (born August 27 1964, Flint, Michigan) is a female boxer. Byrd comes from a boxing family: her father, Joe Byrd, is a former boxer who currently trains her. Her brother Antoine once lost to Roy Jones Jr. in a bid to win the world's Middleweight title, and her other brother, Chris, is a former heavyweight title holder. Tracy Byrd enjoyed athletics since she was a young child. She excelled in high school as a basketball player. - Para Draine
Para Draine (born December 28, 1972 in Seattle, Washington) is an American female boxer who has been a world champion two times. She is a former 112 pounds and current 115 pound champion. Draine stands 5 feet eight inches (68 inches) tall, making her relatively tall for a boxer of her weight. Draine's nickname's are "Hurricane" and "The Spokane Spike". The latter nickname reflects the city she currently resides at. - Yvonne Trevino
Yvonne Trevino (born January 18, 1967) is a former female boxer and fashion model from Peoria, Arizona. - Stacey Reile
Stacey Reile, also known as Stay-Lo, is a participant in the sport of women's boxing. Reile was born and raised in Utica, New York and attended high school there. Reile had a lot of misguided anger and needed a change, so after high school she moved to Miami Beach, Florida. Reile took up boxing in 1998 after she met a Swedish boxer named Lena Akesson (a.k.a. Lena Fiore). Lena, who was signed with Angelo Dundee, invited Reile to her gym. - Marcela Acuña
Marcela Eliana Acuña is an Argentine female boxer, who is nicknamed "La Tigresa". Her mother wished for Acuña to become a ballerina, but that was never Acuña's dream. Acuña enjoyed boxing from a very early age. At the age of seven, she visited a boxing gym for the first time. Her first trainer, Ramon Chaparro, would many years later become her husband. Marcela Acuña became an accomplished martial arts fighter before she decided to box for money.
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