Cecilia Brækhus

Cecilia Brækhus
Interview with Cecilia Brækhus after her title defense against Jill Emery (2011)
Data
Birth Name	Cecilia Carmen Linda Brækhus
Fight name	The first lady
Weight class	Welterweight
nationality	Norwegian
birthday	September 28, 1981
place of birth	Cartagena
style	Left delivery
size	1.71 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles	36
Victories	36
Knockout victories	9
Profile in the BoxRec database

Cecilia Brækhus medal table
Boxing
Norway
World championships
silver	2005	Light welterweight
European championships
silver	2004	Light welterweight
gold	2005	Light welterweight

Cecilia Brækhus at the Oslo Fashion Show 2010

Cecilia Brækhus (born September 28, 1981 in Cartagena , Colombia ) is a Norwegian boxer of Colombian descent and current welterweight champion of the WBA , WBC , WBO , IBF and IBO . Cecilia Brækhus grew up in Bergen , Norway, and has also lived in Berlin since 2008 and in Berlin-Hellersdorf since 2014 .

Life

Cecilia Brækhus was given to an orphanage by her biological parents after her birth in Colombia and was adopted by a Norwegian couple at the age of three. She grew up in Bergen and started kickboxing against her parents' wishes when she was 13 years old.

amateur

Since starting her career as a kickboxer at the age of 14 (European half-contact style), she has won various national awards and became European and world champion.

As an amateur boxer, she was vice European light welterweight champion in 2004 and Norwegian middleweight champion in 2005. At the 4th European Championships in Norway in May 2005, she won the gold medal in the light welterweight division. She beat Mandy Leunissen from the Netherlands (knockout), Larisa Pop from Romania (29:18) and the Russian Julia Nemtsowa (22:15). In September and October of the same year she also took part in the 3rd World Championships in Russia, where she won the silver medal in the light welterweight division. After victories against Elif Islak from Turkey (knockout), Alanna Murphy from Ireland (30:12) and Vinni Skovgård from Denmark (40:24), this time she lost to Julia Nemtsowa (23:34) in the final.

In 2006 she won the Norway Box Cup in Oslo , the Venus Box Cup in Vejle , the Witch Cup in Pécs , the Norwegian Championships in Oslo and the Nordic Championships in Tønsberg .

In total, she won 75 out of 80 amateur fights.

Professional career

On January 20, 2007 Cecilia Brækhus completed her first professional fight against the Croatian Ksenija Koprek and won unanimously on points. In November 2007, Cecilia Brækhus was accepted as the only woman to date in the boxing stable of the German boxing promoter Wilfried Sauerland . After nine more victories, she was on March 14, 2009 by unanimous victory on points against Vinni Skovgård world champion of the WBA and WBC welterweight.

After defending her title against the American Amy Yuratovac and the unbeaten Italian Lucia Morelli, on May 15, 2010, she was also world champion of the WBO and thus title holder of the three largest boxing associations by unanimously winning points against the American Victoria Cisneros. So far she has defended her titles in Germany, Denmark and Finland against Mikaela Laurén from Sweden, Éva Hajic from Serbia, the Americans Jill Emery, Chevelle Hallback and Ku'ulei Kupihea, as well as the German Jessica Balogun and the French Anne Sophie Mathis.

On April 13, 2013 she defeated the American Mia St John by tKo in the third round. In September, an early win against the undefeated Dominican Oxandia Castillo followed. In December 2013, Brækhus ended the longstanding collaboration with Ulli Wegner as a trainer; Otto Ramin became the new trainer.

In 2014 she defended her titles against Myriam Lamare and Jessica Balogun . On September 13, 2014, she defeated Ivana Habazin unanimously and thus also won the IBF World Championship title . She is the world title holder of all four major boxing associations. She defended this title unanimously against Jennifer Retzke in November 2014. At the end of 2014, she announced the end of her collaboration with Sauerland Event .

At the beginning of 2015 it was announced that she was moving to the Klitschko Management Group team around heavyweight world champion Wladimir Klitschko and K2 Promotions around managing director Tom Loeffler. The new coach was Johnathon Banks . A year later, on February 27, 2016, she was also able to defend her title unanimously against Chris Namus.

She won her first fight in front of a home crowd on October 1, 2016 in a revenge match against Anne Sophie Mathis through tKO in the 2nd round. On February 24, 2017, she defended her title against the Swede Klara Svensson unanimously on points. In her hometown of Bergen, she defeated Erica Farias from Argentina again on June 9, 2017 with a unanimous victory on points. In Stokke on October 21, 2017, there was a fight for revenge against her former Sauerland teammate Mikaela Laurén from Sweden, which she won through tKO in the 6th round.

On May 5, 2018, she defeated the American Kali Reis with a unanimous victory on points. However, she had to go down for the first time on her US comeback in the 7th round. In Moscow on July 21, 2018, she defeated the Russian Inna Sagaydakovskaya clearly on points. On December 8, 2018, she won against Polish-born Aleksandra Magdziak-Lopes with a unanimous win on points. This fight was also the last fight in the USA, which was broadcast live on the TV channel HBO .

In August 2019, Brækhus announced the end of their collaboration with Johnathon Banks , who now works as the coach of ex-middleweight world champion Gennadi Golowkin . The new coach was the previous Golowkin coach Abel Sanchez . At the end of October 2019, she signed a promotion contract with Matchroom Boxing under boxing promoter Eddie Hearn . Your advisors remain boxing promoter Tom Loeffler ( 360 Promotions / GGG Promotions ) and the former two-time heavyweight world champion Wladimir Klitschko ( Klitschko Management Group ). On November 30, 2019, she won in Monte Carlo against the Argentine Victoria Noelia Bustos with a unanimous victory on points. This fight was shown live and exclusively from the online streaming service DAZN transferred and was also her first fight for the Matchroom -Boxstall.

List of professional fights

36 wins (9 knockout wins), 0 losses (0 knockout losses), 0 draws
year	Day	place	opponent	Result for Brækhus
2007	January 20th	St. Jakobshalle , Basel, Switzerland	Ksenija Koprek	Points victory (unanimously) / 4 rounds
	February 17th	Complexe Sportif, Evere, Belgium	Jana Latova	Victory / KO 2nd round
	May 26	Jako-Arena , Bamberg, Germany	Olga boyars	Points victory (unanimously) / 4 rounds
	23rd June	Stadthalle, Zwickau, Germany	Borislava Goranova	Points victory (unanimous) / 6 rounds
2008	January 26th	Tempodrom , Berlin, Germany	Wanda Pena Ozuna	Victory / TKO 4th round
	March 29	Sparkassen-Arena , Kiel, Germany	Tatjana Dieckmann	Points victory (unanimous) / 6 rounds
	17th of May	Oberfrankenhalle , Bayreuth, Germany	Adelita Irizarry	Points victory (unanimous) / 6 rounds
	June 21st	Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, Hollywood (Florida), USA	Nicole Woods	Points victory (unanimous) / 6 rounds
	September 20th	Seidensticker Halle , Bielefeld, Germany	Cimberly Harris	Points victory (unanimous) / 8 rounds
	October 25	Weser-Ems-Halle , Oldenburg, Germany	Borislava Goranova	Points victory (unanimous) / 8 rounds
2009	the 14th of March	Ostseehalle Kiel , Kiel, Germany	Vinni Skovgård WBC / WBA World Championship	Points victory (unanimously) / 10 rounds
	30th May	Hartwall Areena , Helsinki, Finland	Amy Yuratovac WBC / WBA title defense	Points victory (unanimously) / 10 rounds
	12th September	MCH Messecenter Herning, Herning, Denmark	Lucia Morelli WBC / WBA title defense	Points victory (unanimously) / 10 rounds
2010	May 15	Congress Center, Herning, Denmark	Victoria Cisneros WBO / WBC / WBA title association	Points victory (unanimously) / 10 rounds
	30th of October	Rostock City Hall , Rostock, Germany	Mikaela Laurén WBO / WBC / WBA title defense	Victory / TKO 7th round
	20th November	Congress Center, Herning, Denmark	Èva Hajic WBO / WBC title defense	Victory / KO 3rd round
2011	2nd of April	Congress Center, Herning, Denmark	Jill Emery WBO / WBC / WBA title defense	Points victory (unanimously) / 10 rounds
	May 7th	Koncerthuset, Copenhagen, Denmark	Chevelle Hallback WBO / WBC / WBA title defense	Points victory (unanimously) / 10 rounds
	3rd of December	Hartwall Arena , Helsinki, Finland	Ku'ulei Kupihea WBO / WBC / WBA title defense	Victory / TKO 10th round
2012	June 1st	Congress Center, Herning, Denmark	Jessica Balogun WBO / WBC / WBA title defense	Points victory (unanimously) / 10 rounds
	September 22	Arena Nord, Frederikshavn, Denmark	Anne Sophie Mathis WBO / WBC / WBA title defense	Points victory (unanimously) / 10 rounds
2013	April 13th	Arena Nord, Frederikshavn, Denmark	Mia St. John WBO / WBC / WBA title defense	Victory / TKO 3rd round
	7th of September	Arena Nord, Frederikshavn, Denmark	Oxandia Castillo WBO / WBC / WBA title defense	Victory / TKO 9th round
2014	February 1st	Arena Nord, Frederikshavn, Denmark	Myriam Lamare WBO / WBC / WBA title defense	Points victory (unanimously) / 10 rounds
	June 7th	Sports and Congress Hall (Schwerin) , Schwerin, Germany	Jessica Balogun WBO / WBC / WBA title defense	Points victory (unanimously) / 10 rounds
	13.september	TAP 1, Copenhagen, Denmark	Ivana Habazin IBF / WBO / WBC / WBA title association	Points victory (unanimously) / 10 rounds
	November 29th	Falconer Centeret, Fredriksberg, Denmark	Jennifer Retzke IBF / WBO / WBC / WBA title defense	Points victory (unanimously) / 10 rounds
2016	27th of February	Gerry Weber Stadium , Halle (Westf.), Germany	Chris Namus IBF / WBO / WBC / WBA / IBO Title Association	Points victory (unanimously) / 10 rounds
	October 1	Oslo Spektrum , Oslo, Norway	Anne Sophie Mathis IBF / WBO / WBC / WBA / IBO title defense	Victory / TKO 2nd round
2017	February 24th	Oslo Spektrum , Oslo, Norway	Klara Svensson IBF / WBO / WBC / WBA / IBO title defense	Points victory (unanimously) / 10 rounds
	June 9th	Bergenhus Fortress , Bergen, Norway	Erica Farias IBF / WBO / WBC / WBA / IBO title defense	Points victory (unanimously) / 10 rounds
	October 21	Oslofjord Convention Center, Stokke, Norway	Mikaela Laurén IBF / WBO / WBC / WBA / IBO title defense	Victory / TKO 6th round
2018	5th of May	StubHub Center , Carson, California, USA	Kali Reis IBF / WBO / WBC / WBA / IBO title defense	Points victory (unanimously) / 10 rounds
	21 July	Olimpijski Hall, Moscow, Russia	Inna Sagaydakovskaya IBF / WBO / WBC / WBA / IBO title defense	Points victory (unanimously) / 10 rounds
	December 8th	StubHub Center , Carson, California, USA	Aleksandra Magdziak-Lopes IBF / WBO / WBC / WBA / IBO title defense	Points victory (unanimously) / 10 rounds
2019	30th of November	Casino de Monte-Carlo , Monte Carlo, Monaco	Victoria Noelia Bustos IBF / WBO / WBC / WBA / IBO title defense	Points victory (unanimously) / 10 rounds
2020	15th of August	Downtown, Tulsa (Oklahoma), USA	Jessica McCaskill IBF / WBO / WBC / WBA / IBO title defense

Others

Cecilia Brækhus enjoys high popularity in the Norwegian population thanks to her sporting successes and her unusual biography, and since 2007, despite the cautious marketing strategies of Sauerland Event GmbH, increasingly in the European population, supported by appearances in TV formats and print magazines. Cecilia Brækhus' professional boxing matches are regularly broadcast on Norwegian television and, since their successful debut in the USA on June 22, 2008, they have also been broadcast to German-speaking television audiences on ARD. Cecilia Braekhus was named “Boxer of the Year 2010” by the specialist boxing magazine . Since April 2014 she has lived in the Berlin district of Berlin-Hellersdorf .

Web links

Commons : Cecilia Brækhus  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Cecilia Brækhus on BoxRec
• Information from Cecilia Brækhus , Women Boxing Archive Network

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Information about the conclusion of a rental agreement on the website of the WBG “Hellersdorfer Kiez” eG ( Memento of the original from May 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ In Berlin in Exile - the best female boxer in the world , Tagesspiegel article from December 25, 2015, accessed on December 25, 2015
3. ↑ Brækhus vraker treneren under en måned for sin neste tittelkamp

predecessor	Office	successor
vacant Holly Holm	Welterweight Boxing Champion ( WBC ) March 14, 2009 -
vacant Holly Holm	Welterweight Boxing Champion ( WBA ) March 14, 2009 -
vacant Hanna Gabriel	Welterweight Boxing Champion ( WBO ) May 15, 2010 -
Ivana Habazin	Welterweight Boxing Champion ( IBF ) September 13, 2014 -
vacant Jennifer Retzke	Welterweight Boxing Champion ( IBO ) February 27, 2016 -