Regina Halmich

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Regina Halmich boxer
Regina Halmich
Data
Birth Name Regina Halmich
Weight class Flyweight
nationality GermanyGermany German
birthday November 22, 1976
place of birth Karlsruhe
style Left delivery
size 1.60 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles 56
Victories 54
Knockout victories 16
Defeats 1
draw 1
Regina Halmich (2016)
Regina Halmich (2008)
Halmich (2008)

Regina Halmich (born November 22, 1976 in Karlsruhe ) is a former German boxer . From 1995 to 2007 she was the undefeated world champion of the WIBF .

Amateur career

Halmich began her sporting ambitions with judo when she was eleven . Three years later she switched to karate and kickboxing , and later to boxing . As an amateur boxer, she was three times German champion (1992 to 1994) and in 1994 also European champion. She received her boxing training at the Karlsruhe Bulldog-GYM.

Professional career

On April 1, 1994 Regina Halmich became professional European champion in the super flyweight division (with a 3-0 point win over the Dutch woman Finie Klee). In the next fight almost three weeks later, she had to accept her only defeat as a professional boxer, she lost in Las Vegas to the American Yvonne Trevino by technical knockout in the fourth round. In 1995 she was able to win the flyweight title and became world champion of the "Women International Boxing Federation" ( WIBF ) in junior flyweight. Between 1998 and 2000 she was WIBF flyweight world champion. Halmich fought for the Hamburg professional boxing stable Universum Box-Promotion .

On September 11, 2004, she won a controversial draw against Elena Reid ( USA ) in Karlsruhe and thus remained world flyweight champion. The next fight on January 15, 2005 against Marilyn Hernandez, however, she was able to confidently win, as well as the fight against Holly Dunaway on April 16, 2005.

She won her 50th professional fight on September 10, 2005 in Karlsruhe with a 2-1 point decision against the Spaniard María Jesús Rosa over the distance of ten rounds. On December 3, 2005, she met Elena Reid again in Magdeburg , which she defeated unanimously this time. On September 9, 2006 she won against Ria Ramnarine from Trinidad and Tobago by technical knockout in the sixth round. On January 13, 2007 she achieved a unanimous victory on points in Halle (Saale) against the Hungarian Réka Krempf . She achieved her penultimate victory on July 28, 2007 in Düsseldorf against the American Wendy Rodriguez and thus created the conditions for her big farewell fight from professional boxing against Hagar Shmoulefeld Finer (Israel) on November 30, 2007 in the dm-Arena in Rheinstetten ( near Karlsruhe).

This final fight, which she controversially won on points, was seen by 8.8 million television viewers. After the award ceremony, promoter Klaus-Peter Kohl thanked the box queen with a diamond ring for the 13 years of cooperation. The fight in Karlsruhe was her 56th professional fight. Of these, Halmich fought 48 times for a world championship, won 46 times, lost only once and boxed once in a draw.

Moderation activities

Since the end of her boxing career, Halmich has occasionally appeared as a co-host on TV broadcasts of boxing matches. From January 2007 Halmich acted as co-moderator and expert for the box broadcasts of ProSieben ; initially together with Stefan Raab , later next to Jan Stecker. Among other things, she moderated the event on December 7, 2007, when Susi Kentikian won Halmich's WIBF world championship, which had become free a week earlier, by defeating Nadia Hokmi.

She also moderated the 2nd and 3rd seasons of The Biggest Loser , which was broadcast on Kabel eins in 2010 and 2011 .

Others

Halmich is a trained paralegal and lives in Karlsruhe. For two years, from 1995 to 1997, she was in a relationship with professional soccer player Martin Driller .

In addition to her sporting successes, she became known through numerous television appearances, such as two show boxing matches against the television presenter Stefan Raab in his show TV total . The show fight in 2001 was watched by 7.35 million viewers. On March 30, 2007, a new edition of this duel took place in the Kölnarena in front of 19,500 spectators, in which she again clearly won, but (only) by winning the points. This time even 7.74 million watched the fight on TV. As a boxing trainer, she appeared in the series Hinter Gittern (2006) and SOKO Stuttgart (2011, season 3, episode 12, Knockout , playing herself). In 2011 she took part as a candidate in the RTL show Let's Dance , but dropped out in the first episode.

For the documentary "Queen in the Ring" about Regina Halmich and her family, Simone Jung received the Hessian Film Prize 2008. In this documentary, Halmich's last two fights become the starting point for a journey into the past, in which Regina Halmich is discovered as a young talent and she leads her passion first for kickboxing, then for boxing from the sheltered middle-class background out into the “wide world”. Halmich sued unsuccessfully in court against the screenings of the film in cinemas because, according to his own statements, it was only agreed that it would be broadcast on TV.

She posed naked for the May 2003 and March 2015 issues of Playboy and May 2007 for Max .

On the album Memento Mori by the band Umbra et Imago , she sings the female text passages of the song Schlag mich . Four of her walk-in anthems were written and played by the rock musician Doro Pesch .

Halmich was a member of the 13th Federal Assembly that elected Federal President Horst Köhler on May 23, 2009 . She was selected by the CDU Baden-Württemberg .

Regina Halmich is involved in the social field for the Weisser Ring association , which supports victims of crime. At the German Olympic Sports Confederation she is the patron of the campaign “Violence against women - not with us”. Since September 2014 she has been an ambassador for the German Children's Fund . In 2014 she supported the animal welfare organization Vier Pfoten . Together with the Brüll campaign for more humanity for animals, they advocate a ban on wild animals in German circuses.

Awards

  • 1996 Golden Pyramid and Boxer of the Year
  • 1996 Golden plaque of the city of Karlsruhe
  • 1997 World's best female boxer (election by WIBF)
  • 1997 Golden Pyramid and female boxer of the year
  • 1997 Golden Sports Medal from the City of Karlsruhe
  • 1998 sports medal from the city of Karlsruhe
  • 1999 Golden Pyramid and Boxer of the Year
  • 2000 Badener of the year
  • 2003 Golden Pyramid and Boxer of the Year
  • 2003 Maxim -Woman of the Year (Sports)
  • 2005 Boxer of the Year - Award from the magazine "Boxsport"
  • 2013 Order of Merit of the State of Baden-Württemberg

Web links

Commons : Regina Halmich  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ quotemeter.de : ZDF: Top ratings for Halmich's last fight
  2. ↑ Spiegel-Online: Farewell to the Lady of the Rings
  3. ↑ The “ProSieben Fight Night” on December 7th in Hamburg: Susi Kentikian against Nadia Hokmi ( Memento from February 10th 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  4. ↑ DWDL.de - Biggest Loser: Halmich takes over Kati Witt's job
  5. ↑ Martin Driller "Regina even spanked me once" , Hamburger Morgenpost from November 28, 2007, accessed on November 18, 2016
  6. ↑ Information about the McFit Fight Night ( Memento from June 17, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ Halmich sues against cinema screenings , report in Die Welt
  8. ↑ "Violence against women - not with us" brochure of the German Olympic Sports Confederation, August 2014, (pdf; 252.45 kB)
  9. ^ Regina Halmich new ambassador for the German Children's Fund , German Children's Fund, September 16, 2014
  10. ↑ Making-of - Regina Halmich , video on vier-pfoten.de, September 26, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Halmich, Regina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German boxer
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe