Jessica Balogun
Jessica Balogun 
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| Data | |
| Birth Name | Jessica Balogun |
| Weight class | Welterweight |
| nationality |
 German
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| birthday | February 20, 1989 |
| place of birth |
Ibadan , Nigeria
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| size | 1.70 m |
| Combat Statistics | |
| Struggles | 28 |
| Victories | 24 |
| Knockout victories | 12 |
| Defeats | 4th |
Jessica Balogun (born February 20, 1989 in Ibadan , Nigeria ) is a German boxer .
Half a year after her birth, Jessica Balogun came to Stuttgart with her mother . She has German citizenship . In 2003 she moved to Aachen . Through a classmate during her school days in Aachen, she made her first contact with the young boxing club MTK Boxing Aachen .
Amateur
Jessica Balogun joined MTK Boxing Aachen in the summer of 2005 and turned out to be a natural talent. In her first competition on April 1, 2006, she won the West German championship with a knockout victory in round one. Just six months later she was boxing at the 4th International German Women's Boxing Championships in Herrischried / Südbaden and won the title of International German Champion by giving up in round two. With it she wrote Aachen sports history: She is the first female boxing champion in the old imperial city.
In November 2006, Balogun won the international women's boxing tournament, Baden Open, with two first-round knockout victories. It took her less than a minute for both fights together. The “Open Aachen City Championship” launched by her club, MTK Boxing Aachen, in 2002 brought her the fourth title in 2006. This time she defeated her opponent in the third round by knocking out her
Success as an amateur
- Winning the West German Championship, April 1st, 2006
- Winning the German championship at the 4th International German Women's Boxing Championships in Herrischried / Südbaden, September 2006
- Winner of the Baden Open tournament , November 2006
- Multiple winner of the Open Aachen City Championships
Professional career
At the beginning of 2008 Balogun switched to the professional camp. Here she signed a trainer and manager contract with her discoverer, the Aachen trainer and manager Mario Guedes . Already on February 23, 2008 she played her first professional fight and fought her way up the rankings with five victories in a row. On June 7th, 2008 Balogun fought in the main fight of the 6th Hattersheim Boxing Night against the until then undefeated European champion Anja Henning the world champion and European champion title in the super welterweight version according to the World Fight Club (WFC). With this victory, Balogun moved up to No. 5 in an independent computer world ranking. On January 24th, 2009 Balogun played her 11th professional boxing match and won her second world title. In Port au Prince , the capital of Haiti, she also won the GBU junior welterweight championship (-64.86 kg) . She knocked out her opponent Evelina Diaz ( Dominican Republic ) in the 5th round. In the meantime, on November 29, 2008, she defended her WFC super welterweight title in Aachen against Tatjana Dieckmann, by knocking out in round 4 After the GBU World Championship victory in Haiti, Sugar J Jessica Balogun successfully defended the junior welterweight title against Daniela David from Romania.
In her 13th professional boxing match on September 5, 2009, she boxed against Olga Bojare from Latvia for the vacant WFC world welterweight title (up to 66.67 kg). She won confidently with 100-90 on points. She then defended the WFC welterweight title one after the other against Eva Halasi (Serbia, November 21, 2009), again Olga Bojare (March 13, 2010), Angel McKenzie (UK, June 4, 2010) and Marija Pejakovic (Serbia, 1. July 2010). On November 20, 2010 Balogun also won the WIBA world welterweight title against the Spaniard Loli Munoz. Also in welterweight she won against the Romanian Floarea Lihet on December 3, 2011 the world title of the GBU.
On June 2, 2012, Jessica Balogun had her 24th professional boxing match in Herning / Denmark. The opponent was the Norwegian Cecilia Braekhus, managed by Sauerland Events Berlin and owner of the world championship belts of WBA, WBC and WBO. Balogun lost after ten rounds. She also lost to Christina Hammer in Magdeburg in March 2014. In contrast, a few months later on April 26, 2014 in Stolberg against Edita Lesnik from Bosnia-Herzegovina, she was able to defend the world champion belt in the super welterweight division according to the WFC version. Subsequently, on June 7, 2014 in Schwerin, Balogun had to surrender again to the Norwegian Braekhus.
In March 2010 Jessica Balogun was voted “Sportswoman of the Year 2009” in the Aachen region by a wide margin, a success that she was able to repeat in 2011.
Success as a professional
- June 7, 2008; WFC European Super Welterweight Champion (female)
- June 7, 2008: WFC Super Welterweight Champion - 69.85 kg (female)
- January 24, 2009: GBU world champion in junior welterweight - 64.86 kg (female)
- September 5, 2009: WFC welterweight world champion - 66.67 kg (female)
- November 20, 2010: WIBA welterweight world champion - 66.67 kg (female)
- December 3, 2011: GBU welterweight world champion - 66.67 kg (female)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christina Hammer dominates Jessica Balogun ( memento of the original from April 1, 2017 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. on boxen-heute.de from March 2, 2014
- ↑ Dirk Müller: The opponent is at the mercy of Jessica Balogun , in: Aachener Zeitung of April 27, 2014
- ↑ Braekhus successful again against Balogun , on box-Sport.de
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Balogun, Jessica |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German boxer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 20, 1989 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ibadan , Nigeria |