Alicia Ashley
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Alicia Ashley is a women's boxing
participant who is the current WBC
female world super bantamweight
champion. Ashley is a Jamaica
n-American
. Born in Jamaica, she moved to the United States at a young age.
Ashley began her professional boxing
career on January 29, 1999, defeating Lisa Howarth by a six round split decision, at Atlantic City, New Jersey
. On her second professional boxing fight, held at Halifax, Canada
, she suffered her first defeat, when she was outpointed over six rounds by Doris Hackl on June 20 of that year.
Ashley rebounded from that defeat with an eight round decision win over Bonnie Canino
June 27 at Tunica, Mississippi
.
After her first three fights, she took a seven-month hiatus from boxing, but on February 11, 2000, she returned, losing by an eight round decision to Mexico
's Laura Serrano
, also in Tunica. After splitting her two next fights, she met "Downtown Leona Brown
": on June 29, she beat Brown on points over eight rounds at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
. Next, she fought Kelsey Jeffries, who, until that bout had lost only one of her nine fights. On September 3, Ashley beat Jeffries by a six round unanimous decision in Nevada
.
Ashley had only one fight in 2001, a decision victory, and then, on January 13, 2002, she made her Las Vegas
debut, drawing (tying) in six rounds with Layla McCarter.
Her next fight, fought on February 23 of that year, was also her first world title try, when she and Jeffries were rematched with the vacant IWBF
world Featherweight
title on the line. Ashley became a world champion by defeating Jeffries once again, this time by a ten round split decision, at New Jersey
.
Ashley lost her next fight, when she met the experienced Chevelle Hallback
, for Hallback's WIBA
world Junior Lightweight title, by a ten round unanimous decision, in Georgia
on August 27.
Ashley then went down in weight, returning to the Super Bantamweight division. On November 15, she defeated Marcela Acuña
by a ten round split decision in Córdoba, Argentina
, to win the WIBF
's vacant world Super Bantamweight title. But this decision win was controversial (the fight was scored 96-94 by two judges for Ashley, and 97-95 by the third for Acuña), and the WIBF ordered an immediate rematch between the two women fighters. On June 14, 2003, she and Acuña met again, this time at Buenos Aires
. The second time around, Ashley retained the title with a ten round unanimous decision.
On November 15, she lost her title to Esther Schouten by a ten round split decision in Austria
.
Her next was against Shondell Alfred
, on March 27, 2004, in Guyana
. She defeated Alfred by an eight round decision.
After a hiatus that lasted almost one year, Ashley returned to boxing on March 3, 2005. when she knocked out Elena Reid
in seven rounds, at Laughlin. She also fought in the World Combat League
.
She lost the fight against Argentina
's Marcela Eliana Acuna for the WBC
female world super bantamweight title by a majority decision at the Estadio Luna Park in Buenos Aires
on August 20, 2009.
After winning two fights in New York
, Ashley won the vacant WBC female super bantamweight title via a unanimous decision at the Hunts Point Produce Market in the Bronx
on July 23, 2011.
It shall be pointed out that, as of July 2011, Ashley has never lost a fight by knockout
.
Women's boxing
Women's boxing first appeared in the Olympic Games at a demonstration bout in 1902. For most of the 20th century, however, it was banned in most nations. Its revival was pioneered by the Swedish Amateur Boxing Association, which sanctioned events for women in 1988. The British Amateur Boxing...
participant who is the current WBC
World Boxing Council
The World Boxing Council was initially established by 11 countries: the United States, Argentina, United Kingdom, France, Mexico, Philippines, Panama, Chile, Peru, Venezuela and Brazil plus Puerto Rico, met in Mexico City on February 14, 1963, upon invitation of the then President of Mexico, Adolfo...
female world super bantamweight
Super Bantamweight
Super bantamweight is a weight division in professional boxing. The maximum weight for this division is 122 pounds, or roughly 55.34 kilograms....
champion. Ashley is a Jamaica
Jamaica
Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...
n-American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. Born in Jamaica, she moved to the United States at a young age.
Ashley began her professional boxing
Boxing
Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...
career on January 29, 1999, defeating Lisa Howarth by a six round split decision, at Atlantic City, New Jersey
Atlantic City, New Jersey
Atlantic City is a city in Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States, and a nationally renowned resort city for gambling, shopping and fine dining. The city also served as the inspiration for the American version of the board game Monopoly. Atlantic City is located on Absecon Island on the coast...
. On her second professional boxing fight, held at Halifax, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
, she suffered her first defeat, when she was outpointed over six rounds by Doris Hackl on June 20 of that year.
Ashley rebounded from that defeat with an eight round decision win over Bonnie Canino
Bonnie Canino
Bonnie Canino is a former women's boxing world featherweight champion for two different associations. She also won world titles in kick boxing for two different associations....
June 27 at Tunica, Mississippi
Tunica, Mississippi
Tunica is a town in Tunica County, Mississippi, United States, located near the Mississippi River. Until the early 1990s the town was one of the most impoverished places in the United States, semi-famous for the particularly deprived neighbourhood known as "Sugar Ditch Alley", named for the open...
.
After her first three fights, she took a seven-month hiatus from boxing, but on February 11, 2000, she returned, losing by an eight round decision to Mexico
Mexico
The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
's Laura Serrano
Laura Serrano
Laura Serrano Garcia is a Mexican boxer.Serrano began boxing at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma Nacional in Mexico City, where she was studying to become a lawyer. She wanted to lose weight and stay in shape. She applied for a professional boxer's license in Mexico...
, also in Tunica. After splitting her two next fights, she met "Downtown Leona Brown
Leona Brown
Leona Brown is a female boxer who is the WIBC world Bantamweight champion. Because of her age, many consider her to be "the George Foreman of women's boxing"...
": on June 29, she beat Brown on points over eight rounds at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Philadelphia County, with which it is coterminous. The city is located in the Northeastern United States along the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers. It is the fifth-most-populous city in the United States,...
. Next, she fought Kelsey Jeffries, who, until that bout had lost only one of her nine fights. On September 3, Ashley beat Jeffries by a six round unanimous decision in Nevada
Nevada
Nevada is a state in the western, mountain west, and southwestern regions of the United States. With an area of and a population of about 2.7 million, it is the 7th-largest and 35th-most populous state. Over two-thirds of Nevada's people live in the Las Vegas metropolitan area, which contains its...
.
Ashley had only one fight in 2001, a decision victory, and then, on January 13, 2002, she made her Las Vegas
Las Vegas, Nevada
Las Vegas is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada and is also the county seat of Clark County, Nevada. Las Vegas is an internationally renowned major resort city for gambling, shopping, and fine dining. The city bills itself as The Entertainment Capital of the World, and is famous...
debut, drawing (tying) in six rounds with Layla McCarter.
Her next fight, fought on February 23 of that year, was also her first world title try, when she and Jeffries were rematched with the vacant IWBF
International Women's Boxing Federation
The IWBF is, along with the WIBA, WIBF and others, one of the more recognized world championship fight sanctioning organizations in Women's boxing. The organization is based in Huntington, New York....
world Featherweight
Featherweight
Featherweight is a weight class division in the sport of boxing. There are similarly named divisions under several Mixed Martial Arts organizations and in Greco-Roman wrestling.-Professional boxing:...
title on the line. Ashley became a world champion by defeating Jeffries once again, this time by a ten round split decision, at New Jersey
New Jersey
New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...
.
Ashley lost her next fight, when she met the experienced Chevelle Hallback
Chevelle Hallback
Chevelle Lynette Hallback is a female boxer from Plant City, Florida. Hallback, nicknamed "Fist of Steel", has been featured on television many times, usually fighting the biggest names in the sport...
, for Hallback's WIBA
Women's International Boxing Association
The Women's International Boxing Association a sanctioning body for women's professional boxing came into existence in July 2000, and quickly grew into a major force in the sport....
world Junior Lightweight title, by a ten round unanimous decision, in Georgia
Georgia (U.S. state)
Georgia is a state located in the southeastern United States. It was established in 1732, the last of the original Thirteen Colonies. The state is named after King George II of Great Britain. Georgia was the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution, on January 2, 1788...
on August 27.
Ashley then went down in weight, returning to the Super Bantamweight division. On November 15, she defeated Marcela Acuña
Marcela Acuña
Marcela Eliana Acuña is an Argentine female boxer, who is nicknamed La Tigresa. Her mother wished for Acuña to become a ballerina, but that was never Acuña's dream....
by a ten round split decision in Córdoba, Argentina
Córdoba, Argentina
Córdoba is a city located near the geographical center of Argentina, in the foothills of the Sierras Chicas on the Suquía River, about northwest of Buenos Aires. It is the capital of Córdoba Province. Córdoba is the second-largest city in Argentina after the federal capital Buenos Aires, with...
, to win the WIBF
Women's International Boxing Federation
The WIBF is, along with the WIBA, IWBF and others, one of the more recognized world championship fight sanctioning organizations in women's boxing. The organization is based in Miami, Florida, and is not associated with male boxing's IBF.The WIBF was formed in the middle 1990s. It is presided by...
's vacant world Super Bantamweight title. But this decision win was controversial (the fight was scored 96-94 by two judges for Ashley, and 97-95 by the third for Acuña), and the WIBF ordered an immediate rematch between the two women fighters. On June 14, 2003, she and Acuña met again, this time at Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...
. The second time around, Ashley retained the title with a ten round unanimous decision.
On November 15, she lost her title to Esther Schouten by a ten round split decision in Austria
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
.
Her next was against Shondell Alfred
Shondell Alfred
Shondell Alfred is a professional boxer from Guyana. She is one of the first female boxers from that country. Much like Archie Moore and other boxers of the past, Alfred had managed to keep her age a secret, which is one of the reasons why she is nicknamed "The Mystery Lady".Alfred is a considered...
, on March 27, 2004, in Guyana
Guyana
Guyana , officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, previously the colony of British Guiana, is a sovereign state on the northern coast of South America that is culturally part of the Anglophone Caribbean. Guyana was a former colony of the Dutch and of the British...
. She defeated Alfred by an eight round decision.
After a hiatus that lasted almost one year, Ashley returned to boxing on March 3, 2005. when she knocked out Elena Reid
Elena Reid
Elena A. Reid is an American boxer and mixed martial artist. She is a former WIBA and IFBA Flyweight Champion and fights under the nickname Baby Doll.-Early life:Reid was born in Phoenix, Arizona in 1981...
in seven rounds, at Laughlin. She also fought in the World Combat League
World Combat League
The World Combat League is a defunct full contact, team-based kickboxing promotion. It was founded by movie star and martial artist Chuck Norris.- Rules :The rules are typical of other full contact striking competitions, with some minor variation....
.
She lost the fight against Argentina
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
's Marcela Eliana Acuna for the WBC
World Boxing Council
The World Boxing Council was initially established by 11 countries: the United States, Argentina, United Kingdom, France, Mexico, Philippines, Panama, Chile, Peru, Venezuela and Brazil plus Puerto Rico, met in Mexico City on February 14, 1963, upon invitation of the then President of Mexico, Adolfo...
female world super bantamweight title by a majority decision at the Estadio Luna Park in Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...
on August 20, 2009.
After winning two fights in New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
, Ashley won the vacant WBC female super bantamweight title via a unanimous decision at the Hunts Point Produce Market in the Bronx
The Bronx
The Bronx is the northernmost of the five boroughs of New York City. It is also known as Bronx County, the last of the 62 counties of New York State to be incorporated...
on July 23, 2011.
It shall be pointed out that, as of July 2011, Ashley has never lost a fight by knockout
Knockout
A knockout is a fight-ending, winning criterion in several full-contact combat sports, such as boxing, kickboxing, Muay Thai, mixed martial arts, Karate and others sports involving striking...
.