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Daniela Romina Bermúdez (born 7 July 1989) 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 fights are supervised by a regulatory auth ...
. She is a former world champion in three weight classes, having held the
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female
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title twice between 2013 and 2020; the WBO female
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title from 2014 to 2017; and the IBF female
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title twice between 2018 and 2020. She is the older sister of former light-flyweight world champion of boxing,
Evelyn Nazarena Bermúdez Evelyn Nazarena Bermúdez (born 1 April 1996) is an Argentine professional boxer who is a two-time IBF and WBO female light-flyweight World champion. She is the younger sister of former three-division world champion of boxing, Daniela Romina ...
.


Early life

Daniela Romina Bermúdez was born on 7 July 1989 in
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, Santa Fe, Argentina. She comes from a fighting family where three of her five siblings are fellow boxers; Roxana, Gustavo and IBF light-flyweight champion, Evelyn. The family own a gym called Bermúdez Boxing Club in
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, Santa Fe.


Professional career

Bermúdez made her professional debut on 26 March 2010, scoring a four-round
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(SD) victory over Roxana Virginia Baron at the Estadio Pedro Estremador in
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, Argentina. She fought a further four times in 2010; a
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(KO) win over Maria Terriaza in April; two consecutive
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s (MD) against Betiana Patricia Vinas in July and October; and a four-round
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(UD) win over Graciela Ines De Luca in November. She began 2011 with a unanimous decision win over Cristina del Valle Pacheco in February, followed by a ten-round unanimous decision loss to Edith Soledad Matthysse in April and a six-round
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(MD) win in a rematch with Matthysse in August. A month later she made her first attempt at a world title by challenging reigning WBA light-flyweight champion
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on 24 September at the Polideportivo Posta del Retamo in Junín, Argentina. Bermúdez lost via unanimous decision over ten rounds, with the judges' scorecards reading 100–90, 97–94 and 96–94. Bermúdez ended the year with a six-round unanimous decision victory over Norma Elizabeth Diaz Caucota in November. Following a second-round
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(TKO) win over Marta Soledad Juncos in January 2012, she faced Mayerlin Rivas on 31 March at Club Atlético Talleres in Villa Gonernador Gálvez, Argentina, with the vacant WBA interim
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title on the line. Bermúdez captured the interim title by majority decision over ten rounds. One judge scored the bout a draw at 95–95, while the other two scored it 95–94 and 96–94 in favour of Bermúdez. Two months after winning the WBA interim bantamweight title, she moved down a
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to fight Judith Rodriguez on 12 May at Club America in
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, this time for the vacant WBA interim
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title. Bermúdez won the bout via ten-round unanimous decision, with the scorecards reading 99–91, 97–94 and 96–94. She fought another two times in 2012; a successful defence of her interim super-flyweight title via second-round technical knockout against Olga Julio in August and a unanimous decision victory over Anahi Yolanda Salles in a six-round non-title bout in December. She defended the title twice in 2013 – with unanimous decision victories over Romina Alcantara in February and
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in April – before moving up in weight to face Neisi Torres for the vacant
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bantamweight title on 31 May, at the Gimnasio Pedro Estremador in Bariloche. Bermúdez won the bout by first-round technical knockout to capture her first full world title. She moved back down to super-flyweight for her last fight of 2013; defeating Judith Rodriguez for a second time in September by unanimous decision in defence of her WBA interim title. Her first fight of 2014 came on January 4, against
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for the vacant WBO super-flyweight title at Piso de los Deportes in Buenos Aires. Bermúdez won the fight via eighth-round technical knockout to become a two-weight world champion. Three months later, she moved down in weight to face former conqueror Yésica Bopp for the vacant WBO
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title. The bout was held on 26 April 2014 at the Polideportivo Carlos Magalot in
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. Bermúdez failed in her attempt to become a three-weight world champion, losing by unanimous decision. Two judges scored the bout 97–93 while the third scored it 98–92. Following the loss to Bopp, Bermùdez moved back up to super-flyweight to successfully defend her WBO title against Vanesa Lorena Taborda in January 2015, winning by majority decision. Her second and last fight of 2015 was against Tomomi Tanaka in November, fighting for the first time outside of Argentina at the
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in
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, Japan. Bermúdez retained her title via fourth-round knockout. She scored three unanimous decision victories in 2016; against Paola Pamela Benavidez in an eight-round non-title bout in May; a WBO super-flyweight defence against Marisa Joana Portillo in June; and a ten-round non-title bout against
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in August which served as a final eliminator for the WBC bantamweight title. She next faced Paola Pamela Benavidez in a rematch in June 2017 – fighting to a split decision draw to retain her WBO super-flyweight title – before moving up in weight to face Soledad del Valle Frias for the vacant WBO bantamweight title on 20 October 2017. The fight was held at Estadio Olímpico in
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, Argentina. Bermúdez won by a shutout unanimous decision, becoming a two-weight world champion on her second try. All three judges scored the bout 100–90. Six months later, Bermúdez moved up in weight yet again, challenging reigning IBF
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champion
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on 13 April 2018 at the Microestadio Municipal in Buenos Aires. Bermúdez won by unanimous decision to become a three-weight world champion, with the judges' scorecards reading 98–92, 97–93 and 96–94. She fought once more in 2018, moving back down to bantamweight to successfully defend her WBO title with a fourth-round corner retirement (RTD) win over Yolis Marrugo Franco. Bermúdez defended the title twice more in 2019; a unanimous decision win over Irma Garcia in March and an eighth-round corner retirement win against Valeria Perez in July. On 4 December 2020, Bermúdez claimed the vacant IBF female junior-featherweight title by stopping Cintia Gisela Castillo in the 10th round of their contest in Zavalla, Argentina. Switching weight divisions again for her next fight on 25 March 2021, Bermúdez challenged WBC and WBO female featherweight champion
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in a bout that was also for the vacant IBO crown. Serrano knocked out Bermúdez in the ninth-round of the contest in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She fought Nina Meinke for the vacant IBF world female featherweight title in
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, Germany, on 21 September 2024, but lost by majority decisionwith two ringside judges favouring Meinke 118-110 and 119-109 respectively while the third scored the fight a 114-114 draw.


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