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Marie-Eve Dicaire
Marie-Ève Dicaire (born July 29, 1986) is a Canadian professional boxer who is a 2-time IBF female light middleweight champion from 2018 to March 2021 and from December 2021 to November 2022. In 2013, she was named athlete of the year by Boxing Quebec. As of September 2020, she is ranked as the world's second best active female light middleweight by ''The Ring'' and BoxRec. Early life Dicaire was born on July 29, 1986 in Saint-Eustache, Quebec. At 6 years old, she started learning Karate and before she was 11 years old, she obtained her black belt and won the Canadian Championship. Martial Arts *5th Dan Black belt - Kenpo Karate Amateur career Dicaire has fought more than 50 fights in less than four years as an amateur. *2012 / 2013 - Quebec Gants Dorés Champion *2013 - Canadian Amateur Champion *2012 / 2013 - Ring Side World Championship *2013 - Athlete par excellence of the Fédération Québécois de Boxe Olympique Professional boxin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Welterweight
Welterweight is a weight class in combat sports. Originally the term "welterweight" was used only in boxing, but other combat sports like Muay Thai, taekwondo, and mixed martial arts also use it for their own weight division system to classify the opponents. In most sports that use it, welterweight is heavier than lightweight but lighter than middleweight. Etymology The first known instance of the term is from 1831, meaning "heavyweight horseman," later "boxer or wrestler of a certain weight" by 1896. This sense comes from earlier "welter" "heavyweight horseman or boxer" from 1804, possibly from "welt", meaning "to beat severely", from 15th century. Boxing Professional boxing A professional welterweight boxer's weight is greater than 140 pounds (≈63 kg), but no more than 147 pounds (≈67 kg). Current world champions Current champions Current world rankings =''The Ring (magazine), The Ring''= As of December, 10, 2022. Keys: : Current ''The Ring (magazine), The Ri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silvia Zuniga
Silvia () is a female given name of Latin origin, with a male equivalent Silvio and English-language cognate Sylvia. The name originates from the Latin word for forest, ''Silva'', and its meaning is "spirit of the wood"; the mythological god of the forest was associated with the figure of Silvanus. Silvia is also a surname. In Roman mythology, Silvia is the goddess of the forest while Rhea Silvia was the mother of Romulus and Remus. Silvia is also the name of one of the female innamorati of the commedia dell'arte and is a character of the '' Aminta'' written by Torquato Tasso. People with the given name * Queen Silvia of Sweden (born 1943), spouse of King Carl XVI Gustaf *Saint Silvia, Italian saint of the 6th century *Silvia Airik-Priuhka, Estonian writer and poetry translator *Silvia Bächli (born 1956), Swiss visual artist *Silvia Barbescu, Romanian painter *Silvia Bellot, Spanish motor racing official * Silvia Braslavsky, Argentinian chemist *Silvia Cambir, Romanian pain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ogleidis Suárez
Ogleidis Suárez is a Venezuelan model and professional boxer. She held the WBA female featherweight title in 2013, having been promoted from interim champion, a title she held from 2011. Suárez also held the WBA female interim super featherweight title in 2014 and challenged for the IBF female light middleweight title in 2019. Professional career Suárez made her professional debut on 7 Dec 2006, scoring a second-round technical knockout (TKO) victory against Luz Darys Giraldo at the Centro de Convenciones Atlapa in Panama City. After compiling a record of 5–0–1 (4 KOs), she defeated Magdalena Leija via seven-round unanimous decision (UD) on 18 September 2008, capturing the vacant WBA Fedelatin female super bantamweight title at the Centro de Convenciones Figali in Panama City. All three judges scored the bout 70–63. She lost the title three fights later, suffering the first defeat of her career against Chantal Martínez by way of split decision (SD) on 21 July 2009 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Videotron Centre
Vidéotron Centre ( French: ''Centre Vidéotron'') is an indoor arena in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. The 18,259-seat arena replaced Colisée Pepsi as Quebec City's primary venue for indoor events. The arena is primarily used for ice hockey, serving as the home arena of the Quebec Remparts of the QMJHL and has been prospected as a venue for a new or re-located National Hockey League team in Quebec City, and as part of a Winter Olympic Games bid. The building opened on September 8, 2015. It is now the seventh-largest indoor arena in Canada, and the largest that does not host an NHL team. History A groundbreaking ceremony for the new arena was held on September 3, 2012, attended by then-Quebecor Chairman Pierre Karl Péladeau, then-Premier of Quebec Jean Charest, and former Quebec Nordiques players Michel Goulet, Peter Šťastný, and Alain Côté. Arena construction began on September 10, 2012. The arena was expected to cost $400 million, but cost $370 million instead with th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ewa Piątkowska
Ewa Piątkowska (born 16 September 1984) is a Polish female professional boxer. She held the WBC female super welterweight title twice between 2016 and 2018. At regional level she held the European female welterweight Welterweight is a weight class in combat sports. Originally the term "welterweight" was used only in boxing, but other combat sports like Muay Thai, taekwondo, and mixed martial arts also use it for their own weight division system to classify th ... title in 2015. As of November 2019, she is ranked as the world's third best active female super welterweight by BoxRec. Professional boxing record References External links * Living people 1984 births Polish women boxers Sportspeople from Radom Welterweight boxers 20th-century Polish women 21st-century Polish sportswomen {{Poland-boxing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christina Hammer
Christina Hammer (born 16 August 1990) is a Kazakhstani-born German boxer. As a professional, she has held multiple world championships in two weight classes, including the WBO female middleweight title from 2010 to 2019, becoming the youngest boxer to win a WBO world title; the WBC female middleweight title between 2016 and 2018; and the WBO female super-middleweight title in 2013. She also challenged once for the WBO female light-middleweight title in 2014 and once for the undisputed female middleweight championship against Claressa Shields in 2019. In February 2021, she returned to the amateur ranks with the intention of competing at the Tokyo Olympics. Since Hammer's victory against Zita Zatyko, she has earned Fighter of the Year by the WBF and WBO; she was awarded BDB's Female Boxer of the Year; and the WBO awarded her with the WBO Diamond Ring for exceptional performance. As of February 2019, Hammer is ranked as the world's second best active female middleweight by '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Lindberg
Maria Camilla Lindberg (born 30 March 1977) is a Swedish professional boxer who has held the WIBF light-middleweight title since 2009. She previously held the WIBA light-middleweight title from 2010 to 2014 and has challenged for multiple world titles, including the WBO female middleweight title in 2011 and April 2021; the unified WBC and WBO female middleweight titles in 2017; and the WBC and IBF female light-middleweight titles in 2018 and 2019, respectively. Professional career After suffering a brain hemorrhage in an amateur bout in 1999, Lindberg received a life-time ban from boxing by the Swedish Boxing Federation. Unable to acquire a boxing license in Sweden, she moved to the US and began training at the Gleason's Gym in New York City. Lindberg made her professional debut on 1 July 2003, scoring a four-round unanimous decision (UD) victory against Katherin Pugh at the Omni New Daisy Theater in Memphis, Tennessee. Following her second fight–a draw against Ann Saccur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lina Tejada
Lina (pronounced "Leena") is a feminine given name. Languages of origin include: English, Italian, Lithuanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Persian, Kurdish, Arabic. It is also the short form of a variety of names ending in -lina including Catalina, Angelina, Carmelina, Carolina, Emelina, Marcelina, Nikolina, Rosalina, Italina, and Žaklina. Lina is a Finnish, Italian, and Slovene feminine given name that is a feminine form of Lino, Lin, and Linus. In 2011 it was one of the most popular given female names in Germany. beliebte-vornamen.de Accessed: August 14, 2012 It was initially used as a shortened form of names such as [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oleksandr Gvozdyk
Oleksandr Serhiyovych Gvozdyk ( uk, Олександр Сергійович Гвоздик, ; also Hvozdyk; born 15 April 1987) is a Ukrainian former professional boxer who competed from 2014 to 2019. He held the WBC and lineal light-heavyweight titles from 2018 to 2019. As an amateur, Gvozdyk won a bronze medal at the 2012 Olympics and a gold at the 2013 Summer Universiade. Nicknamed "The Nail" as the Russian translation of Gvozdyk is nail, Gvozdyk's knockout-to-win ratio stands at 82.4%. He is part of the Ukrainian golden generation of boxing along with Vasiliy Lomachenko and Oleksandr Usyk. Amateur career Gvozdyk began boxing when he was 10, at the encouragement of his friends. As an amateur, he won gold in the light-heavyweight division at the 2008 World University Boxing Championship. He was a three-time national Ukrainian amateur champion, winning the title for the first time in 2009, beating Vyacheslav Shabranskyy in the final. He won the national title again in 2010 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adonis Stevenson
Stevenson Adonis (born 22 September 1977), best known as Adonis Stevenson, is a Haitian Canadian former professional boxer who competed from 2006 to 2018. He won the WBC, ''Ring'' magazine and lineal light-heavyweight titles in 2013 by defeating Chad Dawson by first-round knockout, which earned him awards for Fighter of the Year and Knockout of the Year by ''The Ring''. Known for his fast hand speed and exceptional knockout power, Stevenson was considered one of boxing's hardest punchers during his prime. For more than five years, he made ten successful defenses of the WBC and lineal titles until sustaining a life-threatening brain injury in his 2018 fight against Oleksandr Gvozdyk. Early life and amateur career Stevenson's known name is an inversion of his family name and given name. Born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Stevenson moved to Montreal, Quebec with his family when he was seven. By 14 years old, he was living on the streets and soon fell into a violent gang which drew him ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Namús
Christian Adriana Namús Corrales (born 3 October 1987) is a Uruguayan professional boxer who held the IBF female junior middleweight title from 2017 to 2018. She also challenged for the WBC interim female light welterweight title in 2009; the WBO female light-welterweight title twice in 2011 and 2012; and the undisputed female welterweight title in 2016. As of September 2020, she is ranked as the world's fifth best active female junior middleweight by ''The Ring'' and BoxRec. Professional career Namús made her professional debut on 18 May 2007, scoring a four-round unanimous decision (UD) victory against Maria Eugenia Lopez at the Palacio Peñarol in Montevideo, Uruguay. After compiling a record of 9–0 (2 KOs) she faced Lely Luz Flórez for the WBC interim female light welterweight title on 8 August 2009 at the Palacio Peñarol. Namús suffered her first professional defeat, losing via first-round technical knockout (TKO). Two years later, after nine fights with eight ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Place Bell (Laval, Quebec)
Place Bell is a multi-purpose arena in Laval, Quebec, Canada. The complex includes a 10,000 seat main arena which is the home of the Laval Rocket of the American Hockey League and two smaller community ice rinks, one of which has Olympic size ice. History Then-mayor of Laval, Gilles Vaillancourt, announced the project on February 13, 2012. The facility is managed by Evenko, the same company that operates the Bell Centre in Montreal, home of the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League. As in the case of the Bell Centre, the naming rights for the Laval arena were acquired by Bell Canada. The cost of the project roughly doubled since it was first announced. Originally announced by Vaillancourt in 2012 to cost $92.6 million, the estimate was revised less than a year later to $150 million. In March 2014, Laval's new mayor Marc Demers estimated that the cost of Place Bell would double to $200 million, because of costs not factored by the previous administration. The Government ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
