This writer had a favorite woman boxer: WIBF and WIBO Junior Welterweight World Champion Lucia “The Dutch Destroyer” Rijker, from Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Rijker was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame. She was 17-0 with 14 stoppages when a foot injury cut her career short.
At 13, Rijker was a fencing champion and an unbeaten world champion kickboxer, either 37-0-1 or 36-0. She acted in the Oscar-winning boxing movie Million Dollar Baby. She also appeared in Roller Ball and Star Trek, as well as the TV shows Jag and the L Word.
Possibly the hardest puncher was WIBA World Light Middleweight and Light Heavyweight champion Ann “Brown Sugar” Wolfe, 24-1, with 16 stoppages. She was from Waco, Texas, and was also inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame.
She was the only boxer to defeat unbeaten IBA and WIBA Heavyweight champion Vonda “All-American Girl” Ward, 23-1 with 17 stoppages, for the WIBA World Light Heavy and vacant IBA World Light Heavy titles.
WIBF Flyweight, Super Flyweight, and Super Light Flyweight World champion Regina Halmich, 44-1-1 with 13 stoppages and 40 defenses, 16 against debuting or losing record opponents. She was from Karlsruhe, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany.
2-time Olympic Gold Medalist, WBA, WBC, WBF, and WBO World Middleweight champion Claressa “T-Rex” Shields, 14-0 with two stoppages. She was 63-1 as an amateur.
Shields defeated Nikki Adler, 16-0, Tori Nelson, 17-0-3, Marie Eve Dicaire, 17-0, Ema Kozin, 21-0-1, and Savannah Marshall, 12-0. She is out of Flint, Michigan.
When she defeated WBO and WBC Middleweight and WBO Super Middleweight world champion Christina Hammer, 24-0, in Atlantic City, New Jersey, she had a little help from referee Sparkle Lee, who would step in when Hammer went on the offense.
Hammer, 28-1 with 13 stoppages, from Kazakhstan and residing in Dortmund, Nordhein-Westfalen, Germany.
GBU and WIBF Super Middleweight champion, UBA World Women’s Heavyweight champion, WIBF Inter-Continental Super Middleweight champion “Sister Smoke” Jacqui Frazier Lyde, 13-1 with 9 stoppages, from Philadelphia, PA, daughter of world heavyweight champion “Smokin” Joe Frazier.
Frazier’s only loss was to world heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali’s daughter, WIBA, and WBC Female Super Middleweight champion Laila “She Bee Stingin’ Ali, 24-0 with 21 stoppages, from Los Angeles, California.
Savannah ‘Silent Assassin’ Marshall, 13-1 with ten stoppages, from Hartlepool, County Durham, UK.
WBC World Welterweight, WBF, and WBO World Super Middleweight champion Ema “The Princess” Kozin, 24-1-1 with 12 stoppages from Ljubljana, Slovenia.
WBA, WBO, WBC, and IBF World Female Welterweight champion Cecilia “First Lady” Braekhus, 37-2-1, with nine stoppages from Cartagena, COL, residing in Bergen, Norway.
WBA, WBO, WBC, and IBF World Female Super Lightweight champion Jessica “CasKILLA”
McCaskill, 12-4-1, with five stoppages from Chicago, IL.
IBO, WBA, WBC, WBO, and IBF Female super Lightweight champion Chantelle “Il Capo” Cameron, 18-1 with eight stoppages from Northampton, UK.
Her only loss was to Olympic Gold Medalist (170-10-1) WBC, WBA Lightweight, WBA, WBO, WBC, IBF, IBO Super Lightweight world champion Katie Taylor, 23-1 with six stoppages, from Bray, Ireland.
IBF and WBC World Lightweight champion Delfine Persoon, 49-3 with 19 stoppages from Roeselare, West-Vlanderen, Belgium.
IBO, WBA, WBO, and IBF World Featherweight champion Amanda “The Real Deal” Serrano, 46-2-1, with 30 stoppages from Carolina, Puerto Rico.
WBC World Super Welterweight champion Christy “Coal Miners Daughter” Martin, 49-7-3 with 32 stoppages from Orlando, Florida.
WBO World Featherweight champion Heather “The Heat” Hardy, 24-3, with four stoppages from Brooklyn, New York.
IBO, WBO, WBA, WBC, and IBF World Featherweight champion Alycia “The Bomb” Baumgardner, 15-1 with seven stoppages from Detroit, Michigan.
Olympic Bronze Medalist (60-25), IBF and WBO World Featherweight champion Mikaela Mayer, 19-2 with five stoppages from Colorado Springs, CO.
WBA, WBC, WBO World Flyweight champion Gabriela Alaniz, 15-1 with six stoppages from Merlo, Bueno Aires, Argentina.
IBF, WBA, WBC, WBO World Minimum champion Seniesa Estrada, 26-0 with nine stoppages from East L.A., CA.
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