En mayo de 2010 conquistó el título mundial de la WBO ante la estadounidense Victoria Cisneros. I’m in one of the safest places you can be.”Brækhus, the undisputed welterweight champion who is unbeaten in 36 professional fights, will finally climb through the ropes to defend her WBA, WBC, IBF and WBO titles against McCaskill on Saturday night in a purpose-built ring on the streets of downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma. Women have done three-minute rounds before. “She knows exactly what’s going to happen if she beats me. Jessica McCaskill played spoiler in a major way Saturday night. A los dos años de edad fue adoptada por padres noruegos, está radicada y tiene la nacionalidad Brækhus es embajadora de la Fundación Traer a los niños de la calle (En marzo de 2009 obtuvo el título mundial de la WBA y la WBC al derrotar a la danesa Vinni Skovgaard.

It can be exhaustingYet Braekhus, whose nickname (The First Lady) speaks both to her stately comportment and trailblazing origins, has been around long enough to know that anything even approaching gender equity will only come through a sustained investment.“People always think that one thing or one fight will change women’s boxing, but that’s not the issue,” Brækhus said. Since unifying the belts of all four major sanctioning bodies in 2014, she’s been widely regarded as the sport’s pound-for-pound world No 1. Subscribe to our YouTube channel http://bit.ly/DAZNYouTubeSubscribe Download the DAZN app now http://bit.ly/DAZN_YT FOLLOW DAZN USA ON SOCIAL MEDIA! I was a part of taking women’s boxing to this level,'” she said.McCaskill will now face the Aug. 22 victor between Katie Taylor and Delfine Persoon. Photos: Cecilia Braekhus, Jessica McCaskill - Face-Off at Final Presser That same year, three months after defeating the Croatian champion Ivana Habazin to become the first woman to unify all four major title belts in any weight class, Norway’s parliament voted to repeal the country’s 33-year-old ban on professional boxing, clearing the way for the prodigal daughter to fight on home soil.In October 2016, before a rollicking sold-out crowd at the Oslo Spektrum that included Norwegian prime minister Erna Solberg, Brækhus delivered a sensational second-round knockout in a rematch with French rival Anne Sophie Mathis, who had offered the stiffest test of the Norwegian’s career in their first encounter four years earlier.Some critics have theorized that female boxers, whose fights generally consist of two-minute rounds, should move to three-minute sessions if they want to be viewed as equal, a line of reasoning that observers of women’s tennis are all too familiar with. Rising Super-Welterweight Israil Madrimov (5-0 5 KOs) can close in on World title honors […] Elle débute dans le kickboxing à l'âge de 14 ans. We weren’t allowed to go to the Olympics. Here I am safe and I’m healthy and I can be outside and I have nature around me. Email. She fought Katie when she was very fresh and new. The “First Lady” made adjustments, tried to bounce to the outside and countered well through the middle to late rounds.By the end of the fight, McCaskill’s nonstop motor and bevy of punches earned judges’ respect more than Brækhus’ precision and they scored the bout that way, as McCaskill added the undisputed welterweight crown to her unified super lightweight titles.Plus, she fought the anything’s possible adage into existence with her inspirational story of being homeless at one point of her life to becoming just the fourth woman in women’s boxing to be crowned undisputed world champion.“This is for the fourth-grade-year-old homeless Jessica,” McCaskill said after the bout. Matchroom Boxing USA will return on August 15 – taking world championship boxing to the streets in downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma, live on DAZN. “There are a lot of different pieces to the puzzle all working together. “This is for the little girl that just didn’t care what people thought about her and learned to love herself even though she was really weird.”While the 38-year-old Brækhus doesn’t know what the future holds, she seemed to acknowledge her age and historic career.“If this is my last fight, I could leave women’s boxing and just say ‘I was a part of this. In boxing she has reigned as the undisputed female welterweight champion since 2014, and is the first woman in any weight class to hold the WBA, WBC, IBF and WBO titles simultaneously. It was hard to find trainers. 175K likes. The problem is we’re being asked to give more, always just to give up more, to do more. Getting women’s boxing into the Olympics became a great platform for talent coming up. It’s like we can never do enough. All Rights Reserved.

She’s proven herself against the best win the world. The success of women in the UFC was also a big thing. All these things working together is what’s bringing it to the next level.A Colombian-born orphan who was adopted by a Norwegian couple when she was two, Brækhus took up kickboxing against her parents’ wishes as a teenager, stealing away from the family’s fourth-floor flat by shimmying down the fire escape to train in secret at a local gym. En septiembre de 2014 consiguió su cuarto cetro, el de la IBF, ante Ivana Habazin.