Maïva Hamadouche
Maïva Hamadouche, 2021 | |||||||||||||||
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Nickname | El Veneno ("The Poison") | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 4 November 1989 Albi, France | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 4 in (163 cm) | ||||||||||||||
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| Reach | 64 in (163 cm) | ||||||||||||||
| Stance | Orthodox | ||||||||||||||
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| Total fights | 24 | ||||||||||||||
| Wins | 22 | ||||||||||||||
| Win by KO | 18 | ||||||||||||||
| Losses | 2 | ||||||||||||||
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Maïva Hamadouche (born 4 November 1989) is a French professional boxer and police officer who held the IBF female super-featherweight title from November 2016 to November 2021. At regional level, she held the French female lightweight title in 2014 and the European female lightweight title in 2015.[1]
Life and career
Hamadouche was born in Albi, in the Tarn department. She was raised by a single mother in a family of 6 children.[2] With a baccalauréat economique et social she first planned to study law but abandoned this idea because of family and economic difficulties.[2] Also interested in the army and more precisely in demining, she was received in the contest of the National Active Non-Commissioned Officers School of Saint-Maixent.[2] Not wishing to leave France to continue to devote herself to boxing, she finally decided, at age 19, to make a career in the police.[2] So, in 2009, she joined the Rouen police academy.[3]
She worked for two years in Asnières-sur-Seine then joined in 2014 the Compagnie de sécurisation et d'intervention of Paris.[3] In March 2018 she received the bronze honour medal for courage and devotion from the city of Paris for having rescued in June 2017 a young Mauritanian migrant, injured by a driver, by applying a tourniquet on his leg.[4]
Sports career
After practicing football, she started to train savate at the age of 14, and also practiced boxing afterwards.[2][3] She became a professional in 2013.[2] She trained in Saint-Juéry at the beginning,[5][6] then in Clichy after moving to Paris, having Sot Mezaache as her coach.[2]
She is seven-time vice-champion of France in savate and English boxing, eventually opting for the second discipline despite her debut in French boxing.[3]
In March 2015, in Milan, she became European lightweight champion, while the title was vacant, beating Italy's Anita Torti by throw of the towel in the 5th round[7] then she retained his title in May in Clichy, winning on points in ten rounds against the same competitor.[8]
In November 2016, Maïva Hamadouche won her first IBF World Super featherweight title,[9] still vacant, winning by points in 10 rounds in Paris against the American Jennifer Salinas.[6] She became the third Frenchwoman to win that title after Myriam Lamare and Anne-Sophie Mathis.[9] She retained the title in January 2017 against Milena Koleva, from Bulgaria,[9] in May 2017 against Anahí Ester Sánchez, from Argentina,[9] then in 2018 against the French Myriam Dellal.[10] In 4 December 2018, Maïva Hamadouche kept her IBF world champion title, for the fifth time, against Brazil's Viviane Obenauf.[11]
Taking advantage of a rule change which allowed professional boxers to compete in the Olympics, Hamadouche qualified for the delayed 2020 Tokyo Games only to lose in her opening contest to Finland's Mira Potkonen.[12]
On 5 November 2021, she returned to professional competition to take on WBO female super-featherweight World champion Mikaela Mayer in a contest that saw both women's titles and the inaugural Ring female super-featherweight belt on the line. Mayer prevailed by unanimous decision.[13]
Hamadouche announced her retirement from boxing in May 2023 due to an eye injury that would no longer allow her to fight.[14]
Professional boxing record
| 24 fights | 22 wins | 2 losses |
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| By knockout | 18 | 0 |
| By decision | 4 | 2 |
| No. | Result | Record | Opponent | Type | Round, time | Date | Location | Notes |
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| 24 | Loss | 22–2 | Mikaela Mayer | UD | 10 | 2021-11-05 | The Theater at Virgin Hotels, Paradise, Nevada, U.S. | Lost IBF super-featherweight title; For WBO super-featherweight title |
| 23 | Win | 22–1 | Nina Pavlovic | TKO | 8 (10) | 2020-12-17 | Allianz Cloud Arena, Milan, Italy | Retained IBF super-featherweight title |
| 22 | Win | 21–1 | Janeth Pérez | TKO | 6 (10) | 2019-07-18 | Theatre du Tivoli, Le Cannet, France | Retained IBF super-featherweight title |
| 21 | Win | 20–1 | Viviane Obenauf | RTD | 5 (10) | 2018-12-04 | Le Zénith, Paris, France | Retained IBF super-featherweight title |
| 20 | Win | 19–1 | Gabriella Mezei | KO | 1 (8) | 2018-10-11 | Palais des Sports, Orléans, France | |
| 19 | Win | 18–1 | Myriam Dellal | MD | 10 | 2018-01-20 | Palais des sports Marcel-Cerdan, Levallois-Perret, France | Retained IBF super-featherweight title |
| 18 | Win | 17–1 | Milena Koleva | TKO | 4 (6) | 2017-11-11 | Vélodrome National, Montigny-le-Bretonneux, France | |
| 17 | Win | 16–1 | Anahí Ester Sánchez | TKO | 4 (10) | 2017-05-18 | Cirque d'hiver, Paris, France | Retained IBF super-featherweight title |
| 16 | Win | 15–1 | Milena Koleva | TKO | 9 (10) | 2017-01-21 | Palais des sports Marcel-Cerdan, Levallois-Perret, France | Retained IBF super-featherweight title |
| 15 | Win | 14–1 | Jennifer Salinas | UD | 10 | 2016-11-10 | Halle Georges Carpentier, Paris, France | Won vacant IBF super-featherweight title |
| 14 | Win | 13–1 | Enis Pacheco | TKO | 2 (10) | 2016-05-27 | Cirque d'hiver, Paris, France | Won vacant WBC Silver lightweight title |
| 13 | Win | 12–1 | Maria Semertzoglou | UD | 8 | 2016-04-28 | Casino Ruhl, Nice, France | |
| 12 | Win | 11–1 | Angel McKenzie | TKO | 1 (8) | 2016-03-18 | Gymnase Georges Racine, Clichy, France | |
| 11 | Win | 10–1 | Aouatif Al Kallachi | TKO | 5 (6) | 2015-12-17 | Cirque d'hiver, Paris, France | |
| 10 | Loss | 9–1 | Delfine Persoon | UD | 10 | 2015-11-11 | Zwevezele, Belgium | For WBC lightweight title |
| 9 | Win | 9–0 | Suzana Radovanovic | TKO | 1 (6) | 2015-10-03 | Gymnase Royallieu, Compiègne, France | |
| 8 | Win | 8–0 | Anita Torti | UD | 10 | 2015-05-22 | Gymnase Georges Racine, Clichy, France | Retained European lightweight title |
| 7 | Win | 7–0 | Anita Torti | TKO | 5 (10) | 2015-03-21 | Teatro Principe, Milan, Italy | Won vacant European lightweight title |
| 6 | Win | 6–0 | Galina Gyumliyska | TKO | 4 (6) | 2015-02-21 | Sala Polivalenta, Cluj-Napoca, Romania | |
| 5 | Win | 5–0 | Johanne Cavarec | TKO | 3 (6) | 2014-11-15 | Salle Louison Bobet, Aix-en-Provence, France | |
| 4 | Win | 4–0 | Wendy Gervois | TKO | 4 (8) | 2014-05-16 | Gymnase Georges Racine, Clichy, France | Won vacant French lightweight title |
| 3 | Win | 3–0 | Floarea Lihet | RTD | 3 (6) | 2014-03-14 | Salle Jean Blot, Courbevoie, Courbevoie, France | |
| 2 | Win | 2–0 | Mirabela Nadina Calugareanu | TKO | 2 (6) | 2014-01-25 | Horia Demian Sports Hall, Cluj-Napoca, Romania | |
| 1 | Win | 1–0 | Karina Szmalenberg | TKO | 2 (6) | 2013-12-07 | Gymnase Georges Racine, Clichy, France |
See also
References
- ^ "BoxRec: Maiva Hamadouche". boxrec.com. Retrieved 15 November 2019.
- ^ a b c d e f g Mathieu Blard, « Maiva Hamadouche, policière et boxeuse », sur bondyblog.fr, .
- ^ a b c d Marie Slavicek, « Boxe : Maïva Hamadouche, policière à Paris, « poison » sur le ring », sur lemonde.fr, .
- ^ Martine Lecaudey (19 January 2018). "Maïva Hamadouche : "Sauver une vie, ça marque"". ladepeche.fr..
- ^ A. L., « La championne du monde de boxe Maiva Hamadouche sur les traces de son enfance à Saint-Juéry (Tarn) », sur france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr, .
- ^ a b Michel Frejabise, « Maïva Hamadouche, championne du monde IBF », sur ladepeche.fr, .
- ^ "Maiva Hamadouche championne d'Europe". ffboxe.com. 25 March 2015. Archived from the original on 6 August 2019. Retrieved 6 August 2019..
- ^ A.-A. F. (22 May 2015). "Maïva Hamadouche conserve aux points son titre européen des légers". lequipe.fr..
- ^ a b c d Marie Slavicek, « Maïva Hamadouche : « Je veux marquer l’histoire de la boxe » », sur lemonde.fr, .
- ^ "Maïva Hamadouche conserve son titre mondial". ladepeche.fr. 22 January 2018..
- ^ "Maïva Hamadouche en mode repos". ladepeche.fr. 16 December 2018. Retrieved 5 January 2019..
- ^ "Mira Potkonen Ousts Maiva Hamadouche From Olympics With Split Decision Win". Boxing Scene. 27 July 2021. Retrieved 21 May 2024.
- ^ "Mikaela Mayer downs Maiva Hamadouche by unanimous decision to unify junior lightweight titles". ESPN. 6 November 2021. Retrieved 21 May 2024.
- ^ "French boxer Maiva Hamadouche ends career due to eye injury". ESPN. 10 May 2023. Retrieved 21 May 2024.
External links
- Boxing record for Maïva Hamadouche from BoxRec (registration required)
- Maïva Hamadouche at InterSportStats
- Maïva Hamadouche at Olympedia
- Maïva Hamadouche at Olympics.com
- Maïva Hamadouche at Équipe de France (in French)
- Maïva Hamadouche on Instagram