WBA, WBC, WBO and IBF World Heavyweight Champion Claressa Shields won Olympic gold medals in 2012 and 2016.
Per Boxrec, her amateur record was 63-1 with 11 stoppages, and she fought out of Flint, Michigan. In the pro ranks, she defeated the person who beat her in the UK WBO Middleweight Championship, Savannah Marshall, in October 2022, 12-0, when she was also 12-0, adding that title to her IBF and WBC titles. She said the heavyweight titles to her middleweight title.
WBA and WBC super middleweight champion Laila “She Be Stingin” Ali, 24-0 with 21 stoppages, is the daughter of heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali. She retired when she became pregnant.
One I consider the hardest hitter is WIBA Light Middleweight and Light Heavyweight Champion Ann Wolfe, 24-1 with 16 stoppages from Waco, Texas. She lost her seventh fight to Valerie Mahfood, 10-3, by stoppage in 2000, then defeated her by decision in 2003 for the NABA Super Middleweight title.
Two fights later, she knocked out Light Heavyweight champion Vonda Ward 18-0 in the first round.
WIBF and WIBO Light Welterweight Champion Lucia “The Dutch Destroyer” Rijker, 17-0 with 14 stoppages from Amsterdam, Netherlands.
At 13 she won the Amsterdam and Dutch fencing titles. As a pro kickboxer, she was 36-0 with 25 stoppages. In retirement, he would turn to acting in movies such as Million Dollar Baby, Rollerball and Star Trek. She was admitted to the IBHOF in 2018.
I consider her one of the best, if not the best, female boxer of all time.
Last updated on 12/01/2025
