Lourdes Yoana Juárez Trejo (born 19 December 1986) is a Mexican

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who has held the WBC female

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title since 2020. As of December 2020, she is ranked as the world's best active female super flyweight by '' The Ring'' and second by

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. She is the younger sister of former world champion boxer

Mariana Juárez María Anastasia Trejo (born 29 January 1980), better known as Mariana Juárez, is a Mexican professional boxer. She is a former two-division world champion, having held the WBC female flyweight title from 2011 to 2012 and the WBC female bantam ...

Professional career

Juárez made her professional debut on 26 October 2013, scoring a fourth-round

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(KO) victory against Gabriela Martinez at the Deportiva Agustín Ramos Millan in

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, Mexico. After two more victories—both by

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(UD)—Juárez suffered two consecutive defeats in 2014; losing via second-round

technical knockout A knockout (abbreviated to KO or K.O.) is a fight-ending, winning criterion in several full-contact combat sports, such as boxing, kickboxing, muay thai, mixed martial arts, karate, some forms of taekwondo and other sports involving striking, a ...

(TKO) against Jazmin Ortega in February and a four-round

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(SD) against Brisa Hernández in April. Following the defeats she embarked on a 14-fight winning streak before facing future world champion

Yesenia Gómez Yesenia Guadalupe Gómez Vasquez (born 21 January 1996) is a Mexican professional boxer who has held the WBC female light flyweight title since 2018. As of May 2020, she is ranked as the world's seventh best active female light flyweight by Box ...

on 24 September 2016 at the Oasis Hotel Complex in

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, Mexico. The bout was stopped in the fourth round of a scheduled eight-rounder after Gómez suffered a cut from an accidental clash of heads, resulting in the fight being ruled a

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(NC). She scored three more victories, one by TKO, before challenging for her first title—the WBC FECOMBOX female

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title—against Cecilia Santoscoy on 2 September 2017 at the Centro de Espectáculos de la Feria de León in León, Mexico. Juárez defeated Santoscoy via ten-round UD to capture the regional WBC title. She made one successful defence, defeating Diana Fernández via ten-round SD in November. After eight more victories, one by TKO, she challenged for the

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against reigning champion

Guadalupe Martínez Guzmán Guadalupe Martínez Guzmán (born 5 April 1992) is a Mexican professional boxer who held the WBC female super flyweight title from 2017 to December 2020. Between 2013 and 2014, she challenged for the IBF female super flyweight and junior flywei ...

on 12 December 2020 at the Studios Televisa in

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. In a fight which saw both boxers trade punches at close range throughout the fight, with Lourdes' being the more accurate of the two, she defeated Guzmán via UD to capture her first world title. Two judges scored the bout 97–93 and the third scored it 96–93.

Professional boxing record

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