Women's boxing
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Although women have participated in boxing for almost as long as the sport has existed, female fights have been effectively outlawed for most of boxing's history until recently, with athletic commissi
Anne-Sophie Da Costa and Tina Rupprecht boxing, 2017
Bennett sisters boxing, c.1910–1915
Louise Adler, female lightweight world boxing champion of the 1920s, training for her title defense
Renata Cristina Dos Santos Ferreira punches Adriana Salles, São Paulo, Brazil (2006)
Claressa Shields
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Claressa Maria Shields is an American professional boxer and former professional mixed martial artist. She has held 18 major world championships spanning five weight classes, including the undisputed
Shields at Collision 2022
Shields with her Olympic gold medal in 2012
Shields (in red) vs. Yenebier Guillén Benítez, 2015
Claressa Shields in 2016