Bonnie Canino (born 11 January 1962) is a retired

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boxer and kickboxer, and former world featherweight champion for two different associations. She also won world titles in

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for two different associations. She is the former IFBA World Feather weight champion and two time

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World Featherweight title challenger. She is the former WAKO and World KICK Kickboxing Champion. In 2014, Canino was inducted into the

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. Canino holds notable wins over Gloria Ramirez, Nora Daigle and Sue Chase in her career. She also lost bouts to

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Personal life

After retiring in 1999 from professional

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, she worked at a car dealership and managed

Ada Vélez Ada "Ace" Vélez (born September 15, 1969) is a Puerto Rican female professional boxer from Dania Beach, Florida who lives in Miami. Vélez was brought into boxing by former women's boxing world champion Bonnie Canino. After a successful undefe ...

, the first Puerto Rican woman to become a world boxing champion, and Yvonne Reiss, the WBC Women's Middleweight World Champion who won the title in 2006. Since retiring from prize fighting she has become a boxing coach. She later opened her own karate and boxing gym. She has organized the Women’s National Golden Gloves tournament.

Professional career

Bonnie Canino has in her professional kickboxing career had 35 fights, winning 28 of them. She was the KICK World Featherweight Champion, as well as the WAKO World Featherweight kickboxing champion between 1993 and 2000. Alongside her kickboxing career, she participated in boxing bouts as well. She won her two fights, against April Griffith and Tina Speakman, by TKO and her third fight against Sue Chase by unanimous decision. She then challenged for the Women's IBF Featherweight title, but lost a unanimous decision against

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. Her second IFBA title defense was a unanimous decision win against Nora Daigle.

Championships and accomplishments

*International Women's Boxing Hall of Fame **IWBHF Class of 2014 Hall of Fame Inductee *International Female Boxers Association **IFBA World Featherweight Championship (126 lbs) ***Two successful title defenses *World Association of Kickboxing Organizations **WAKO World Featherweight Kickboxing Championship *KICK Kickboxing **KICK World Featherweight Kickboxing Championship

Professional boxing record

Kickboxing record

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References

External links

Official site
{{DEFAULTSORT:Canino, Bonnie 1962 births Living people American women boxers Sportspeople from Miami Boxers from Florida American female kickboxers American sportspeople of Puerto Rican descent World boxing champions World featherweight boxing champions American female taekwondo practitioners American wushu practitioners