The “Coalminers Daughter” Christy Martin appeared to place feminine boxers within the limelight, profitable the WBC Tremendous Light-weight title again in 2009. She ended with a 49-7-3 with 29 stoppages.
Apart from Martin, listed here are eleven others, some retired and a few energetic. You decide who you’re feeling was or is the perfect.
Holly “The Preachers Daughter” Holm was the IBA and WBF Tremendous Light-weight champ. Her report of 33-2-3 with 9 stoppages. She even tried her luck in MMA, going 4-4.
Ann “Brown Sugar” Wolfe was often called one of many hardest feminine boxers. She fought in 4 divisions. She received mild middleweight and lightweight heavyweight titles. She was 24-1 with 16 stoppages.
Germany’s Regina Halmich had 40 defenses. At 54-1-1 with 16 stoppages, she received titles in 4 divisions.
Laila “She Be Stingin” Ali being the daughter of Muhammad Ali she was anticipated to be nice. At 24-0 with 21 stoppages, she retired attributable to motherhood. Her win over one other daughter of a heavyweight champion Jacquai Frazier Lyde, 13-1 with 9 stoppages was by majority resolution.
I felt the choice was questionable. When requested why Ali didn’t cease her, she stated “she was all the time in my face!” Proper, and will have gotten the win for doing it.
Lucia “The Dutch Destroyer” Rijker, 17-0 with 14 stoppages. in my view, must be one in all or the perfect. An damage ended her profession.
Two-time Olympic Gold Medalist Claressa “T-Rex“ Shields is presently thought-about the perfect feminine boxer. She was 63-1 within the amateurs dropping to Savannah Marshall whom she defeated within the professional ranks. Now 15-0 with 13 stoppages holding titles in 4 divisions.
I used to be in Atlantic Metropolis, New Jersey, masking the battle when she defeated Christina Hammer of Germany and KAZ. I felt each time Hammer went on the offense, referee Sparkle Lee obtained in and separated them, stopping Hammer from scoring. At 28-1 with 13 stoppages, she by no means obtained a rematch.
2012 Olympic Gold Medalist, present WBO, WBC, WBA, IBF, IBO Tremendous Light-weight champion Katie Taylor, 23-1 with six stoppages from Eire, prepared to fulfill WBA, WBO, IBO Featherweight champion Amanda ‘The Actual Deal’ Serrano, 47-2-1 with 31 stoppages from Puerto Rico in November, with Serrano one other to contemplate.
Minimal WBA, WBC, WBO, IBF champion Seniesa ‘Tremendous Unhealthy’ Estrada, 26-0 with 9 stoppages from East L.A., California.
