Boxing is a very popular and in
some cases one of the highest paying sports in the world.
Women’s boxing first appeared in a demonstration bout of the
Olympic Games in 1904. Women’s boxing has progressed to the
point that there are literally thousands of amateur and
professional boxers in the sport today. We had some of our
favorite picks for 2016 for professional female boxers and top
amateur boxers who turned pro in 2016.
Amanda Serrano. We start our list of top picks of female
boxers in 2016, Serrano, 31-1-1 (23KO) has had quite a year in
2016, fighting four times, and winning all her bouts. She has
not only pound-for-pound skills in the ring, but projects a
stellar image outside the ring, and continues to do that in the
sport. In 2016, Serrano became the WBO Featherweight Champion
when won by a first round KO. She had the honor of being the
first female to headline a card in Puerto Rico, where she won by
a fourth round KO. Serrano was featured in every newspaper in
Puerto Rico on every top TV program, with over 35 billboards
throughout the island. In 2016, she was named “Fighter of the
Year” in Puerto Rico.
Cecilia Braekhus. Next on our list of another top pick of
the
Best Female Boxers
in 2016, is Braekhus, 29-0-0
(8KO) who made history in Norway in 2016, after she made a
historical homecoming, who was the first boxer to fight on
Norwegian soil since 1981. In one of her fights that took place
in 2016, Braekhus had an impressive win over Anne Sophie Mathis,
who was stopped in the second round of a ten round bout, where
it was a unification title fight for the WBC, WBA, IBF, WBO, and
IBO Welterweight titles.
Zulina Munoz. The next boxer on our list of Top Picks in
2016 with Mexican banter weight Zulina ‘La Loba’ Munoz, who
sports a professional boxing record of 48-1-2 (28 KO), and is a
veteran boxer of 11 years thus far, and holds the WBC Super
Flyweight World title. She made her professional boxing debut on
March 11, 2005 at Salon Super Estrella in Ciudad, Mexico. Many
websites, like this great site,
have been experiencing great traffic with people all over the
world betting on Zulina Munoz whenever she was fighting.
Marcela Acuna. The next boxer on our list in 2016, Acuna,
45-6-1 (19KO), fought three times in 2016, winning two by
ten-round unanimous decisions and one by KO. In December of
2016, she delivered Yesica Marcos her first loss in the sport
after Marcos had won 27 straight professional bouts, where Acuna
won the vacant IBF Super Bantamweight World Title.
Jessica Chavez. The next on our list, Chavez, 28-4-3
(4KO) fought three times in 2016, with all being in defense of
her WBC Flyweight title, in which she won all three bouts. She
is currently the WBC Flyweight world champion and has defended
her title several times. Chavez first began to box when she had
her pro debut on June 12, 2006, where she won her fight against
Maribel Cruz by a TKO in the fourth round.
Claressa Shields. A history-making amateur boxer who
turned pro who made our top-picks list, made her pro debut in
November of 2016, and was the first female Olympian to turn pro
in the sport. She also made her footprint in the sport when she
fought in the history-first 2012 London Olympics, winning a Gold
Medal, and then again competed in the 2016 Rio Olympics winning
her second gold medal. Shields was only striving to win the Gold
when she competed twice in the Olympics and never settled for
less not even for a
Olympic Bronze Medal
in Boxing.
Yessica Bopp. The next female boxer on our list, an
Argentine women’s boxing champion in the light flyweight
division. Nicknamed “Tuti,” Bopp stands 5’0″ tall and has a
professional record of 27-1. Bopp is the top ranked female light
flyweight fighter in the world. For
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Katie Taylor. The last, but not least on our list of Best
Female Boxers 2016, Ireland’s most popular and accomplished
female boxer, Katie Taylor, is one of the most accomplished
female boxers in the sport as an amateur, and winning a Gold
Medal in the history-first Olympics that took place in London in
2012. In 2016, Taylor turned pro, and quickly earned a 2-0-0
(1KO) boxing record as a pro. She first made Irish boxing
history, at the age 15 in October of 2001 in the first
officially sanctioned women's bout ever held in Ireland.