Érica Anabella Farías (born 13 July 1984), known as "La Pantera", is an Argentine

professional boxer Professional boxing, or prizefighting, is regulated, sanctioned boxing. Professional boxing bouts are fought for a purse that is divided between the boxers as determined by contract. Most professional bouts are supervised by a regulatory autho ...

. She is a two-weight world champion, having held the WBC female

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title from 2011 to 2014 and the WBC female

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title from 2014 to 2018. She also challenged once for the

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championship in 2017. As an amateur, she won a silver medal at the 2006 World Championships. As of October 2020, she is ranked as the world's second best active female super lightweight by

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and fourth by ''The Ring''.

Amateur career

Farias made her competitive debut as an amateur on 10 December 2005, against Carolina Lopez. She won a gold medal at the 2006 Pan American Championships in

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, Argentina, and silver at the 2006 World Championships in

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, India, losing to

Katie Taylor Katie Taylor (born 2 July 1986) is an Irish professional boxer and former footballer. She is a two-weight world champion and the current undisputed lightweight champion, having held the WBA title since 2017; the IBF title since 2018; and the ...

of Ireland in the final, both in the

division.

Professional career

Farias made her professional debut on 25 July 2009, at Estadio F.A.B. in

. She won a four-round

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over Betiana Patricia Viñas. Farias won her fight against Ann Saccurato in 2011, after it was stopped in the eighth round due to an accidental clash of heads. On 4 April 2014, Farias made the tenth defense of her WBC

title against

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. She lost in a ten-round unanimous decision. Farias won her second world title, WBC

, on 15 November 2014, defeating

Alejandra Oliveras Alejandra Marina Oliveras (born March 20, 1978), known as "La Locomotora", is an Argentine boxer. She is the former WBC female super lightweight, WBO World female featherweight and WBA World female lightweight champion. She was born in El C ...

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. On 2 May 2015, she made the first defense of her title against

Klara Svensson Klara Svensson (born 15 October 1987) is a Swedish professional boxer. She held the WBC interim light-welterweight title from 2014 to 2015, the WBC interim welterweight title from September 2016 to February 2017, and challenged for the undisput ...

. She won by unanimous decision. On 9 June 2017, Farias challenged

champion

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, but lost by unanimous decision.

Professional boxing record

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Farias, Erica 1984 births Living people Boxers from Buenos Aires Argentine women boxers World Boxing Council champions World lightweight boxing champions World light-welterweight boxing champions AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships medalists