María Guadalupe Bautista Hernández (born 19 April 1988) is a Mexican

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. She is a two-time world

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champion, having held the

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female title since December 2020 and previously the

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female title in 2018. As of December 2020, she is ranked as the world's ninth best active female light flyweight by

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Professional career

Bautista suffered her first defeat in her professional debut on 17 September 2009, losing via four-round

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(UD) against future world champion

Maribel Ramírez Maribel Ramírez (born Maribel Ramírez de Jesús on 28 June 1986) is a Mexican professional boxer. She has held the WBA female super flyweight title since 2018 and has challenged twice for the WBC female super flyweight title in 2012 and 2013 ...

at the Woda Night Club in

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. After compiling a record of 3–4–1—including two more defeats to Maribel Ramírez—Bautista suffered three consecutive defeats via UD against future world champions in 2012;

Ibeth Zamora Silva Ibeth Zamora Silva (born 6 February 1989) is a Mexican professional boxer. She is a two-division world champion, having held the WBC female flyweight title from 2018 to 2021 and previously the WBC light flyweight title from 2013 to 2017, as wel ...

for the WBC Youth female

title on 3 March; Esmeralda Moreno for the

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female light flyweight title on 17 May; and

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for the WBC Youth female light flyweight title on 7 July. After two years out of the ring, she bounced back from the defeats with a four-round

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(SD) victory against Itzel Barrera in September 2014, followed by a six-round

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(PTS) loss against another future world champion,

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, in December. Bautista captured the vacant Mexican female light flyweight title in her next fight, defeating Mitzi Rodríguez via ten-round SD on 30 May 2015, at the Gimnasio Sportyka in Mexico City. After nine more fights—seven wins, one loss and one draw—she faced Andrea Sanchez for the vacant IBF female light flyweight title. The bout took place on 12 May 2018, at the Club Unión Progresista in

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, Argentina, with Bautista emerging victorious with an eighth-round

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(TKO) to capture the vacant IBF title. She lost the title via SD in her first defence, suffering the eleventh defeat of her career, against Evelyn Nazarena Bermúdez on 29 December at Club Atlético Talleres in

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, Argentina. One judge scored the bout 96–94 in favour of Bautista while the other two scored it 96–94 to Bermúdez. In her next fight she moved up to the

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division, defeating Nayeli Verde via UD (100–90, 100–90, 100–91) to capture the WBC Silver female title on 24 August 2019, at the Auditorio Sub-Delegacion Valle Verde in

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, Mexico. She ended 2019 with a UD victory against Karen Rubio in December to retain her title. Following two decision wins in non-title fights, she moved back down to light flyweight to face

Nora Cardoza Nora Leticia Cardoza Vazquez (born 16 April 1983) is a Mexican professional boxer. She has challenged for world titles on three occasions; the WBC female atomweight title in 2013; WBA female atomweight title in 2019; and the WBA (Regular) fema ...

for the vacant WBA (Regular) female light flyweight title. The bout took place on 12 December 2020 at the Salon de Fiestas Figlos Stase in

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, Mexico. Bautista defeated Cardoza via shutout UD, with all three judges scoring the bout 100–90.

Professional boxing record

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