The Best Women Boxers In History
For many centuries sports were divided between being for males and females. Most likely several decades ago people did not consider women could have been part of the sports such as boxing because it is considered to be the hard sport and there is no place for women in the men’s world.
For the past several years, the boxing industry has discovered many talented women who have debuted in sports and are one of the successful representatives of the industry. The history of boxing for women has not been as easy as for men as they had to fight not only in the ring but for the ring as well.
There is the list of some of the most prominent female boxers, who printed their own pages in the history:
Nicola Adams
Nicola Adams is a 37-year-old former British boxer, who has competed as an amateur between 1990 and 2017. From 2017 to 2019 she debuted as a professional. She held the WBO female flyweight title between July and November 2019.
Adams is the first female boxer to win Olympic gold medal at London 2012 and the first female boxer to become a double Olympic champion after winning a second gold medal in Rio 2016. Adams is also one of the most influential people in the UK as she is openly bisexual and was named as the most influential LGBT person in Britain. With this, she is also the first LGBT person to win the Olympic boxing Gold medal as well.
Adams retired from boxing in November 2019, due to the pupil injury she got in the fight. With her retirement she became one of the very few people to retire as an undefeated world champion.
Natascha Ragosina
Natascha Ragosina is a 46-year-old retired professional boxer, who spent much of her career ranked as the top female super middleweight in the world. Natascha is the fighter who has never tasted defeat in her entire professional career. Natascha was born in Kazakhstan and debuted in boxing in early 2004.She has won every single fight of a total of 22 fights on her account. Within the 22 fights, 13 of these were knockouts. Natascha was the top female super middleweight boxer in the world and is also the longest-reigning WBA and WBC female super middleweight champion. Her last fight was with Pamela London. The victory is the fight gave Natascha the WBF and WIBF heavyweight titles to add to her trophy and improved her championship record to an immaculate 16-0.
Giselle Salandy
Giselle Salandy the Trinidadian professional female boxer was undefeated during her whole professional career. She is the number one female light middleweight boxer of all time.
Giselle made her professional debut at the age of 13. At the age of 14, she already became the youngest boxer in history to win boxing titles after she won against Paola Rojas in 2001. It was only four years later, when she was 18 she defeated Manela Saniels and became the youngest female puncher to win the NABC world title.
On March 29, 2008, she became the first boxer to win six title belts in one fight. Unfortunately, she could not recover from the injuries of the car accident and die. In August 2009, she was posthumously awarded the Order of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, the highest national award in her country.
Cecilia Breakhus
Cecilia Breakhus is a 38-year-old Norwegian professional boxer as well as a former kickboxer. She has reigned as the undisputed female welterweight champion since 2014. Cecilia is the first woman in any weight category to hold WBA, WBC, IBF and WBO titles all simultaneously.
She is prominent not only in the women’s world but in the men’s world as well as she is one of the seven boxers in the entire history to hold four major titles simultaneously and she became the first-ever boxer to hold five world titles from sanctioning bodies simultaneously.
She's defended both a record 20 times and has annexed the IBF and WBO belts along the way. With all of this being told, we definitely know who is going to be the number one choice for online bookmakers in Norway! It is very unlikely that she will be defeated any sooner.
Ann Wolfe
Anne Wolfe is a 48-year-old former American Boxer. She held world titles in three different weight categories simultaneously. Wolfe is considered to be the greatest fighter in the history of women’s boxing.
Many think that Anne is the best fighter as well as the hardest puncher in female boxing. It was in 2004 when she won the IBA world light heavyweight title when she officially held a total of three world titles. The record is shared with Hendry Armstrong.
Anne Wolf has retired from boxing in order to become a trainer and this seems to be successful as well. As she currently coaches several professional boxers. Anne has bees been in the cast of the movie s well. As the Amazon warrior in the Wonder Woman, which she truly is.