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Kathy Long (born April 21, 1964) is an American kickboxer, mixed martial artist, and actress. [1] [2] She has held various kickboxing championships, including two KICK World Kickboxing titles and the WKA and ISKA world titles.
This is a list of notable female kickboxers. This list shows kickboxers and professional competitors of other martial arts such as bama-lethwei ( burmese boxing ), kickboxing , pradal serey (khmer boxing), sanshou (sanda), savate boxing and shoot boxing .
In the UK kickboxing has a growing following according to the WMC. [9] In May 2016 the kickboxing organisation Glory announced the creation of a women's division built around Tiffany van Soest. [10] In 2021 the Lumpinee Boxing Stadium finally allowed women to compete in Muay Thai. [11] [12] [13]
In 1997, Gibbs started boxing professionally. Her record was 9-2-1 (2 KO). She made her boxing debut January 23, 1997, in a four-round decision over Maria Fortaleza Recinos. Due to unfortunate scheduling, Gibbs entered the title fight against Leah Mellinger during the time she was filming the movie Knockout. The intense film schedule combined ...
After winning her first 14 fights, but failing to secure a match with Christy Martin, Rijker stepped away from boxing in 1999 to pursue a career in Hollywood. [5] She appeared as Billie 'The Blue Bear' Osterman in 2004's Oscar-winning, female boxer-based film Million Dollar Baby and was featured in the documentary film Shadow Boxers. [5]
Saho Yoshino (Japanese: 吉野紗帆, Yoshino Saho, born October 15, 1999), better know by her ring name ☆SAHO☆, is a Japanese kickboxer.She is the current K-1 Women's Flyweight champion.
Graciela Casillas (born 1957) is an American former boxer and kickboxer who competed in the bantamweight division. After training in several traditional martial arts, Casillas began competing as a kickboxer in 1976, and in 1979 she became the first fighter to hold world titles in both boxing and kickboxing by taking the World Women's Boxing Association's and the World Kickboxing Association's ...
Shadow Boxers is a 1999 American documentary film about women's boxing, by director Katya Bankowsky, that focuses on the pioneering [1] fighter Lucia Rijker. It also features an original soundtrack by Argentine singer and songwriter Zoel .