Åsa Sandell

Sandell, Åsa
Data
Birth Name	Sandell, Åsa Maria
Weight class	medium weight
nationality	Swedish
birthday	January 24, 1967
place of birth	Hovsta, Örebro municipality
style	Southpaw
size	1.85 meters
Combat Statistics
Struggles	11
Victories	6th
Knockout victories	3
Defeats	3
draw	2
Profile in the BoxRec database

Åsa Maria Sandell (born January 24, 1967 in Hovsta , Örebro municipality , Sweden ) is a Swedish boxer , journalist and writer .

Career

Amateur career

Åsa Sandell played various sports in her youth, but then concentrated on the game of basketball and was active in this sport at a sports club in Örebro. She then began studying journalism and literature at Lund University , which she successfully completed. After completing her studies, she was employed by the newspapers "Dagens Nyheter" and "Helsingborg Dagbladet", but has been working as a freelancer for some time.

When women's boxing slowly gained a foothold in Sweden in the mid-1990s, she was one of the first to pursue the sport. She started boxing training in Örebro in 1995 and had her first fight that same year. In the period from 1995 onwards there were only relatively few opportunities for women to start, so the number of their fights remained relatively small. At the end of her career as an amateur boxer in 2000, Åsa Sandell had only fought 23 fights, of which she won 21. She was Swedish middleweight champion (up to 75 kg body weight) four times . In 1999 she lost in the final of the Swedish Middleweight Championships against Anna Laurell on points.

In 1997 she started in Gothenburg in the very first international match played by a Swedish women's boxing relay against the Canadian Patty Satok and clearly defeated them with 15: 0 points. In 1999 she started in Köping (Sweden) at the 1st Women's European Cup, a predecessor of the European Championships for women. There were only two women in the middleweight division, so that she faced the Russian Natalija Ragosina , who later became the women's professional world champion, in the final fight . She clearly lost this fight on points (3:15).

In 2000 she also started at the 2nd Women's European Cup in Mâcon / France , where she won over Savka Stoklasova from the Czech Republic by disqualification in the third round and in the final battle against Olga Maltsewa from Russia clearly on points (7: 0). After this success, she ended her amateur career.

Profile career

Åsa Sandell was inactive for a few years after finishing her amateur boxing career. But at the end of 2003 she decided to go to the professional boxers' warehouse. Since professional boxing was banned in Sweden, she had to go to the United States. She therefore settled in New York and trained at Gleason's Box Gym. On May 30, 2004, she played in Washington, DC , her first fight, which she won in the middleweight division against the American Tabitha Rosario by technical knockout in the 3rd round. At that time she was already 37 years old. On January 29, 2005, she defeated Bose Ijoala from the United States in a four-round fight at the Silverton Hotel Casino in Las Vegas, clearly on points. Against the American Yolanda Swindell, she then reached a draw in Nevada in a six-round fight. Then she defeated on June 18, 2005 in Edmonton , Canada , Donna Logue from Canada by technical knockout in the second round. On August 8, 2005 Åsa Sandell suffered her first defeat in Nevada against the American Laura Ramsey. One judge gave her the victory with 57:56 points, while two judges chose Laura Ramsey (56:57 and 55:58).

On December 17, 2005, she fought in the Max-Schmeling-Halle in Berlin against the American Laila Ali . Laila Ali, the daughter of Muhammad Ali , had won all 22 professional fights that she had contested at that time and was world champion of several professional boxing associations. Åsa Sandell had no chance against the much younger Laila Ali and lost this fight by technical knockout in the fifth round. She lost on June 17, 2006 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, against the Nigerian Ijeoma Egbunine by technical knockout in the second round.

Åsa Sandell won the following three fights: On October 19, 2006, she defeated Cimberly Harris from the United States in New York on points (60:54, 60:54 and 59:55). On January 27, 2007 she played a historic fight in the Scandinavium Arena in Gothenburg. She fought against the American Tiffany Carter in the first professional fight, which took place in Sweden after the lifting of the professional boxing ban. She won this fight in the 4th round by giving up. She was able to complete her last two fights as a professional boxer in Sweden. On March 31, 2007, she beat in the Liseberghallen in Gothenburg Dakota Stone from the United States on points and on September 15, 2007 she fought in the Lofberg Arene in Karlstad against Teres Perozzi from Bermuda in a draw. This fight was the only title fight, it was for the middleweight title of the World Boxing Empire and the World Boxing Council International Championship, which she denied.

After this fight Åsa Sandell ended her boxer career. She now lives in Kungsholmen near Stockholm and works as a writer, lecturer and boxing trainer.

literature

• Box Sport magazine

Web links

• Åsa Sandell's personal website
• Åsa Sandell in the BoxRec database
• Åsa Sandell in BoxRec Encyclopaedia
• www.amateur-boxing.strefa.pl