Michele Aboro (born 17 July 1967) is a British former professional boxer who competed from 1995 to 2001. She retired an undefeated world champion, having held the

WIBF The Women's International Boxing Federation (WIBF) is one of the more recognized world championship fight sanctioning organizations in women's boxing. Founded in March 1989, it is based in Miami, Florida, and presided over by Barbara Buttrick. The ...

super-bantamweight Super bantamweight, also known as junior featherweight, is a weight class in professional boxing, contested from and up to . There were attempts by boxing promoters in the 1920s to establish this weight class, but few sanctioning organizations or ...

title from 2000 to 2001. Michele Aboro, along with her countrywoman

Michelle Sutcliffe Michelle Sutcliffe (born 3 February 1967) is an English female boxer who competed in the Light Flyweight division. On 27 February 2000 she became the first Leeds-based boxer, professionally licensed under the British Boxing Board of Contro ...

and German Regina Halmich, became an important figure in European women's boxing, helping raise awareness about female participation in a traditionally male sport.

Professional career

On 4 March 1995 she debuted as a professional boxer, with a first round

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win over Marleen Lambert in Belgium. As a matter of a fact, her first three professional fights were held in different European countries (Belgium, Italy and Hungary) and they were all first-round knockout wins for Aboro. Her fourth fight, on 19 October 1996 against Severine Grandsire, was her first fight in Germany, and Aboro won by a sixth-round technical knockout. Aboro had one more win, and then, on 29 November 1997, she met future world champion Daisy Lang, defeating Lang by a six-round decision. On 22 August 1998 Aboro fought Brigitte Pastor for the vacant WIBF European Super Bantamweight title, knocking out Pastor in five rounds to win her first professional belt. She defended her title once, knocking out Galina Gumliiska in eight rounds on 28 November, then followed that win with four more wins in a row, before obtaining her first world title opportunity. Aboro became a world champion when she fought Eva Jones, on 5 February 2000, knocking Jones out in round ten to become the WIBF's world Super Bantamweight champion. Then came Downtown Leona Brown's challenge. Aboro met the future world champion on 13 June that year, defeating Brown by a ten-round decision. After two, non-title wins, she faced the highly touted contender Kelsey Jeffries, who had 10 wins and only 2 losses coming into their bout, for her second world championship defence. Aboro defended the title successfully against Jeffries on 10 February 2001, with a ten-round decision win. After one more non-title win, Aboro made what has been, to date, her last fight. On 24 November that year she beat Nadia Debras, who she had previously beaten, by a ten-round decision, to retain her world title for the third time. Aboro has not officially announced her retirement. However, should she decide to remain inactive and, ultimately, to retire from boxing, she would join Rocky Marciano and a handful of others in boxing's history to retire as an undefeated world champion. As of 2019, Aboro is a resident of Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Professional boxing record

Kickboxing record

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References

External links

Official site
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Michele Aboro
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Awakening Fighters
{{DEFAULTSORT:Aboro, Michele 1969 births Living people English women boxers Boxers from Greater London English emigrants to China English sportspeople of Nigerian descent World boxing champions English female kickboxers English Muay Thai practitioners Female Muay Thai practitioners English female mixed martial artists Mixed martial artists utilizing boxing Mixed martial artists utilizing Muay Thai Super-bantamweight boxers English emigrants to the Netherlands Undefeated world boxing champions