Hanna Gabriel
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Hanna Gabriel Valle is a Costa Rican boxer
, junior middleweight category, which has been highlighted by several international victories.
Gabriel is the daughter of Yolanda Valle Moreno and Lesslie Gabriel Binns, a promising boxer who qualified for the Olympic Games
in Moscow 1980, but was unable to attend. She has one brother, Windell Gabriel, who plays football in the Costa Rican first division.
She debuted in the Gimnasio Nacional, San Jose, Costa Rica, on November 17, 2007, fighting Nicaraguan
Aoska Xochilet Herrera and defeating her by KO
.
On December 19, 2009 Gabriel won the World Boxing Organization
(WBO) welterweight
(147 pounds) World Championship against Argentine
Gabriela Zapata by technical knockout during the fourth round. The fight took place in the Dennis Martinez stadium, Managua
, Nicaragua
and was part of an evening in posthumous tribute to triple world champion Alexis Arguello
, El Flaco Explosivo, considered as one of the greatest boxers of all time.
On January 14, 2010, just over a month after that victory, she renounced the title after suffering several blackouts due to her diet. Her correct category is middleweight
and for the aforementioned competition she'd had to lose weight by not eating carbs.
On May 29, 2010 Gabriel defeated the Dominican
Gardy Pena in Bayamón, Puerto Rico
to win the World Boxing Organization
(WBO) junior middleweight (154 pounds) World Champion title in a fight that lasted only 11 seconds.
On January 11, 2011, Hanna won by TKO (Technical Knockout) to retain the World Championship Title against her rival, Melisenda Pérez. Her cousin Andrés Calderón was present for the fight and was noted as part of her motivation to win in a following interview.
On March 31, 2011, Hanna fought and defeated Melisenda Pérez once again while defending her World Championship Title during the inauguration acts of Costa Rica
's new National Stadium in front of 14.000 attendees. It took Hanna seven rounds to defeat her rival by knockout.
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...
, junior middleweight category, which has been highlighted by several international victories.
Gabriel is the daughter of Yolanda Valle Moreno and Lesslie Gabriel Binns, a promising boxer who qualified for the Olympic Games
Olympic Games
The Olympic Games is a major international event featuring summer and winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games have come to be regarded as the world’s foremost sports competition where more than 200 nations participate...
in Moscow 1980, but was unable to attend. She has one brother, Windell Gabriel, who plays football in the Costa Rican first division.
She debuted in the Gimnasio Nacional, San Jose, Costa Rica, on November 17, 2007, fighting Nicaraguan
Nicaraguan
Nicaraguans are people inhabiting in, originating or having significant heritage from Nicaragua. Most Nicaraguans live in Nicaragua, although there is also a significant Nicaraguan diaspora, particularly in Costa Rica and the United States with smaller communities in other countries around the world...
Aoska Xochilet Herrera and defeating her by KO
Ko
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.
On December 19, 2009 Gabriel won the World Boxing Organization
World Boxing Organization
The World Boxing Organization is a sanctioning organization currently recognizing professional boxing world champions. The organization is recognized as one of the four major world championship groups by the IBHOF alongside the International Boxing Federation, the World Boxing Council and the...
(WBO) welterweight
Welterweight
Welterweight is a weight class division in combat sports. Originally the term "welterweight" was used only in boxing, but other combat sports like kickboxing, taekwondo and mixed martial arts also began to use it for their own weight division system...
(147 pounds) World Championship against Argentine
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...
Gabriela Zapata by technical knockout during the fourth round. The fight took place in the Dennis Martinez stadium, Managua
Managua
Managua is the capital city of Nicaragua as well as the department and municipality by the same name. It is the largest city in Nicaragua in terms of population and geographic size. Located on the southwestern shore of Lake Xolotlán or Lake Managua, the city was declared the national capital in...
, Nicaragua
Nicaragua
Nicaragua is the largest country in the Central American American isthmus, bordered by Honduras to the north and Costa Rica to the south. The country is situated between 11 and 14 degrees north of the Equator in the Northern Hemisphere, which places it entirely within the tropics. The Pacific Ocean...
and was part of an evening in posthumous tribute to triple world champion Alexis Arguello
Alexis Argüello
Alexis Argüello , also known by the stage name El Flaco Explosivo , was a Nicaraguan professional boxer and politician...
, El Flaco Explosivo, considered as one of the greatest boxers of all time.
On January 14, 2010, just over a month after that victory, she renounced the title after suffering several blackouts due to her diet. Her correct category is middleweight
Middleweight
Middleweight is a division, or weight class, in boxing. Early boxing history is less than exact, but the middleweight designation seems to have begun in the 1840s. In the bare-knuckle era, the first middleweight championship fight was between Tom Chandler and Dooney Harris in 1897...
and for the aforementioned competition she'd had to lose weight by not eating carbs.
On May 29, 2010 Gabriel defeated the Dominican
Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic is a nation on the island of La Hispaniola, part of the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean region. The western third of the island is occupied by the nation of Haiti, making Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands that are shared by two countries...
Gardy Pena in Bayamón, Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...
to win the World Boxing Organization
World Boxing Organization
The World Boxing Organization is a sanctioning organization currently recognizing professional boxing world champions. The organization is recognized as one of the four major world championship groups by the IBHOF alongside the International Boxing Federation, the World Boxing Council and the...
(WBO) junior middleweight (154 pounds) World Champion title in a fight that lasted only 11 seconds.
On January 11, 2011, Hanna won by TKO (Technical Knockout) to retain the World Championship Title against her rival, Melisenda Pérez. Her cousin Andrés Calderón was present for the fight and was noted as part of her motivation to win in a following interview.
On March 31, 2011, Hanna fought and defeated Melisenda Pérez once again while defending her World Championship Title during the inauguration acts of Costa Rica
Costa Rica
Costa Rica , officially the Republic of Costa Rica is a multilingual, multiethnic and multicultural country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Caribbean Sea to the east....
's new National Stadium in front of 14.000 attendees. It took Hanna seven rounds to defeat her rival by knockout.