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Although women have participated in boxing for almost as long as the sport has existed, female fights have been effectively outlawed for most of boxing's history until recently, with athletic commissioners refusing to sanction or issue licenses to women boxers, and most nations officially banning the sport.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 21 January 2025. For men's edition, see List of current world boxing champions.
The following is a list of WBC female world champions certificated by the World Boxing Council (WBC). Stand: June 3, 2020. r – Champion relinquished title. s – Champion stripped of title. On July 30, 2011, Ana María Torres won the first female Diamond Belt by defeating Jackie Nava at Bantamweight. [1]
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 ...
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
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 ...
Boxing: 2005– Taoriba Biniati Kiribati: 57 kilograms (126 lb) Lightweight: Boxing: 2014– Arlene Blencowe Australia: 66 kilograms (146 lb) Featherweight: Boxing: 2012– Yesica Bopp Argentina: Light flyweight: Boxing: 2008– Lovlina Borgohain India: Welterweight: Boxing: Cecilia Brækhus Norway: 64 kilograms (141 lb) Welterweight: Boxing ...
Women's boxing entranced athletes like Australia’s Tiana Echegaray, who had never boxed just five years ago. She was 25 and working at a boring office job in the music business in Sydney when ...