Rola El-Halabi
Rola El-Halabi 
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 Rola El-Halabi as a speaker at a martial arts course in Ulm |
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| Data | |
| Birth Name | Rola El-Halabi |
| Weight class | lightweight |
| nationality | German |
| birthday | March 17, 1985 |
| place of birth | Beirut , Lebanon |
| style | Left delivery |
| size | 1.68 m |
| Combat Statistics | |
| Struggles | 13 |
| Victories | 12 |
| Knockout victories | 7th |
| Defeats | 1 |
| Profile in the BoxRec database | |
Rola El-Halabi (born March 17, 1985 in Beirut , Lebanon ) is a German former professional boxer of Lebanese origin and world champion of the WBF , WIBF and WIBA.
Life
El-Halabi came to Germany with her Lebanese parents when she was one year old. Immediately afterwards, her father left her mother. Her brother comes from her stepfather's marriage to her mother. In 1994 she started with kick and Thai boxing ; Amateur boxing was added in 1996 . She has had German citizenship since 2004. After being an amateur a. a. Vice-world champion in kickboxing and multiple international German champion in amateur boxing, she switched to the professional camp in October 2006 after finishing her high school (Abitur 2005). Since September 30, 2007, Rola El-Halabi has been the WIBF European lightweight champion. In October 2008 she was honored as an outstanding athlete in her hometown of Ulm . On June 5, 2009 she won the WIBF and WIBA World Championship titles in Neu-Ulm with a win against Loly Munoz (Spain).
On April 1, 2011, right before a title fight against the Bosnian Irma Adler in Berlin-Karlshorst, Rola El-Halabi was transferred to one hand by her stepfather Hicham El-Halabi, from whom she had separated in his role as a manager in January 2011 one knee and both feet shot. The background to the fact was apparently that Rola El-Halabi had entered into a relationship with a married man of Greek origin. In September 2011, the criminal trial against Hicham El-Halabi began before the Berlin Regional Court . When the judge asked about her sporting future, Rola El-Halabi replied: “Hope never dies, I can't assess it yet, there is no way out at the moment.” On November 14, 2011, the Berlin district court sentenced the stepfather to six in the first instance Years imprisonment.
On January 12, 2013 El-Halabi lost her attempt at a comeback in the Neu-Ulm Ratiopharm Arena against the 33-year-old German-Italian Lucia Morelli just on points. She announced in the ring that she would try again.
In August El-Halabi then fought for the Hungarian WBF title against Dalia Vasarheliy and defended the title against Sopio Putkaradze in September of the same year. In March 2014 she defended the WBF title again and won the vacant WIBA and UBF titles by beating Victoria Cisneros in Ulm.
Parallel to her training, she gives motivational lectures and shows how to deal with setbacks in order to get back to the top. In 2013 she published an autobiography with the journalist Felicia Englmann entitled Stehaufmädchen . In August 2013 she won the WBF title fight in the light welterweight division, the next weight class above lightweight, against the Hungarian Dalia Vasarhelyi and became world champion again. A month later she successfully defended this title against Sopo Putkaradze in Saarbrücken. In 2013/14 the Ulm town hall dedicated an exhibition to her with photos by Andreas Reiner, who was also allowed to accompany Rola El-Halabi exclusively behind the scenes for many years.
In November 2016, El-Halabi announced her resignation. She is married to her boyfriend at the time in Greece and runs a martial arts school with him in Thessaloniki . You have two children.
Amateur career kick and Thai boxing
Here she played 20 fights with 17 wins (8 × KO) and 3 losses. In addition, she was:
- Baden-Württemberg champion kickboxing 2001
- German champion kickboxing 2003
- Nations Cup winner kickboxing 2004
- German champion kickboxing 2004
- International German champion Thai boxing 2004
- World Cup winner kickboxing 2004
- Vice European champion kickboxing 2004
- Vice world champion in kickboxing 2005
Amateur career boxing
El-Halabi is a member and spokeswoman of the 1st German women's boxing national team in 2006. In amateur boxing, she played 22 fights, with 18 wins (3 × KO) and 4 defeats. In 2004 she took part in the European Championship. In addition, she became
- International Tyrolean Champion 2002
- Ceresit-Cup winner 2002
- Bavarian champion 2003
- International German Champion 2003
- International German Champion 2004
- South German champion 2005
- Dolomitencup winner 2005
- Poland Cup winner 2006
- International German Champion 2006
Professional career boxing
So far (January 2014) she has played 13 fights as a professional with 12 wins (7 × KO) and one defeat. In these professional fights the opponents were:
- Charlotte von Baumgarten (GER) (TKO1 on June 10, 2007)
- Sabrina Stegner (GER) (KO1 on August 4, 2007)
- Galina Gumliiska (BUL) (PTS10 on September 30, 2007)
- Borislava Goranova (BUL) (PTS4 on December 4, 2007)
- Elisabejta Suerica (RUM) (KO1 on February 9, 2008)
- Marina Kohlgruber (GER) (PTS10 on July 26, 2008)
- Eva Santa (SER) (KO5 on November 16, 2008)
- Loly Munoz (ESP) (PTS10 on June 5, 2009)
- Agnese Boza (LVL) (KO4 on September 4, 2009)
- Mia St. John (USA) (TKO5 on March 20, 2010)
- Olga Bojare (LET) (PTS6 on June 4, 2010)
- Lucia Morelli (ITA) (PTN10 on January 12, 2013)
- Dalia Vasarhelyi (Hun) (UD on August 3, 2013)
- Sopo Putkaradze (GEO) (TKO on September 7, 2013)
Publications
- Stand-up girl. How I fight my way back to the boxing world championship after my stepfather's attack. MVG Verlag, Munich 2013. ISBN 978-3868822779 (with Felicia Englmann).
Web links
Wikinews: Rola El-Halabi - on the news- Rola El-Halabi in the BoxRec database
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Gunnar Meinhardt : "I went through hell". In: welt.de. August 1, 2013, accessed August 14, 2019 .
- ↑ Stepfather knocked out female boxer before world championship fight
- ↑ Hendrik Ternieden: Attack on professional boxer: Four balls, a destroyed career. In: Spiegel Online . September 27, 2011, accessed February 12, 2014 .
- ↑ Kerstin Gehrke: El-Halabi-Trial: The targeted shots of a father. In: Tagesspiegel . November 14, 2011, accessed February 12, 2014 .
- ↑ Manuela Harant: Rola El-Halabi gets into the ring in January. In: Südwestpresse . November 5, 2012, accessed February 12, 2014 .
- ↑ Benedikt Warmbrunn: Shot boxer El-Halabi: Comeback with scars. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . December 22, 2012, accessed February 12, 2014 .
- ^ Sara Peschke: Comeback of boxer El-Halabi - victory through defeat. In: Spiegel Online. January 13, 2013, accessed February 12, 2014 .
- ↑ Rola El-Halabi's opponent provokes: "Kick in the butt" swp.de
- ^ Speakers page by Rola El-Halabi , accessed on January 31, 2013
- ^ Rola El-Halabi in the BoxRec database, accessed on January 9, 2010
- ↑ El-Halabi's comeback to life: “Most of them would have been broken”. In: Schwäbische.de . December 29, 2013, accessed February 12, 2014 .
- ^ Andreas Reiner: Rola El-Halabi. In: Stadthaus Ulm. Retrieved September 8, 2017 .
- ↑ Rola El-Halabi puts the gloves aside augsburger-allgemeine.de
- ↑ How is boxing world champion Rola El-Halabi today? sterntv.de, August 7, 2019, accessed on August 14, 2019 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | El-Halabi, Rola |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German boxer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 17, 1985 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Beirut , Lebanon |