Maïva Hamadouche
Maïva Hamadouche | |||||||||||||||
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 Malva Hamadouche, 2021 | |||||||||||||||
| Born | 4 November 1989 Albi, France | ||||||||||||||
| Nationality | French | ||||||||||||||
| Other names | El Veneno (The Poison) | ||||||||||||||
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| Height | 1.62 m (5 ft 4 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Reach | 1.63 m (64 in) | ||||||||||||||
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| Total fights | 24 | ||||||||||||||
| Wins | 22 | ||||||||||||||
| Wins by KO | 18 | ||||||||||||||
| Losses | 2 | ||||||||||||||
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Maïva Hamadouche (born 4 November 1989) is a French professional boxer and police officer who held the IBF female super-featherweight title from November 2016 to November 2021. At regional level, she held the French female lightweight title in 2014 and the European female lightweight title in 2015.[1]
Life and career[edit]
Hamadouche was born in Albi, in the Tarn department. She was raised by a single mother in a family of 6 children.[2] With a baccalauréat economique et social she first planned to study law but abandoned this idea because of family and economic difficulties.[2] Also interested in the army and more precisely in demining, she was received in the contest of the National Active Non-Commissioned Officers School of Saint-Maixent.[2] Not wishing to leave France to continue to devote herself to boxing, she finally decided, at age 19, to make a career in the police.[2] So, in 2009, she joined the Rouen police academy.[3]
She worked for two years in Asnières-sur-Seine then joined in 2014 the Compagnie de sécurisation et d'intervention of Paris.[3] In March 2018 she received the bronze honour medal for courage and devotion from the city of Paris for having rescued in June 2017 a young Mauritanian migrant, injured by a driver, by applying a tourniquet on his leg.[4]
Sports career[edit]
After practicing football, she started to train savate at the age of 14, and also practiced boxing afterwards.[2][3] She became a professional in 2013.[2] She trained in Saint-Juéry at the beginning,[5][6] then in Clichy after moving to Paris, having Sot Mezaache as her coach.[2]
She is seven-time vice-champion of France in savate and English boxing, eventually opting for the second discipline despite her debut in French boxing.[3]
In March 2015, in Milan, she became European lightweight champion, while the title was vacant, beating Italy's Anita Torti by throw of the towel in the 5th round[7] then she retained his title in May in Clichy, winning on points in ten rounds against the same competitor.[8]
In November 2016, Maïva Hamadouche won her first IBF World Super featherweight title,[9] still vacant, winning by points in 10 rounds in Paris against the American Jennifer Salinas.[6] She became the third Frenchwoman to win that title after Myriam Lamare and Anne-Sophie Mathis.[9] She retained the title in January 2017 against Milena Koleva, from Bulgaria,[9] in May 2017 against Anahí Ester Sánchez, from Argentina,[9] then in 2018 against the French Myriam Dellal.[10] In 4 December 2018, Maïva Hamadouche kept her IBF world champion title, for the fifth time, against Brazil's Viviane Obenauf.[11]
Taking advantage of a rule change which allowed professional boxers to compete in the Olympics, Hamadouche qualified for the delayed 2020 Tokyo Games only to lose in her opening contest to Finland's Mira Potkonen.[12]
On 5 November 2021, she returned to professional competition to take on WBO female super-featherweight World champion Mikaela Mayer in a contest that saw both women's titles and the inaugural Ring female super-featherweight belt on the line. Mayer prevailed by unanimous decision.[13]
Hamadouche announced her retirement from boxing in May 2023 due to an eye injury that would no longer allow her to fight.[14]
References[edit]
- ^ "BoxRec: Maiva Hamadouche". boxrec.com. Retrieved 2019-11-15.
- ^ a b c d e f g Mathieu Blard, « Maiva Hamadouche, policière et boxeuse », sur bondyblog.fr, .
- ^ a b c d Marie Slavicek, « Boxe : Maïva Hamadouche, policière à Paris, « poison » sur le ring », sur lemonde.fr, .
- ^ Martine Lecaudey (19 January 2018). "Maïva Hamadouche : "Sauver une vie, ça marque"". ladepeche.fr..
- ^ A. L., « La championne du monde de boxe Maiva Hamadouche sur les traces de son enfance à Saint-Juéry (Tarn) », sur france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr, .
- ^ a b Michel Frejabise, « Maïva Hamadouche, championne du monde IBF », sur ladepeche.fr, .
- ^ "Maiva Hamadouche championne d'Europe". ffboxe.com. 25 March 2015. Archived from the original on 6 August 2019. Retrieved 6 August 2019..
- ^ A.-A. F. (22 May 2015). "Maïva Hamadouche conserve aux points son titre européen des légers". lequipe.fr..
- ^ a b c d Marie Slavicek, « Maïva Hamadouche : « Je veux marquer l’histoire de la boxe » », sur lemonde.fr, .
- ^ "Maïva Hamadouche conserve son titre mondial". ladepeche.fr. 22 January 2018..
- ^ "Maïva Hamadouche en mode repos". ladepeche.fr. 16 December 2018. Retrieved 5 January 2019..
- ^ "Mira Potkonen Ousts Maiva Hamadouche From Olympics With Split Decision Win". Boxing Scene. Retrieved 2024-05-21.
- ^ "Mikaela Mayer downs Maiva Hamadouche by unanimous decision to unify junior lightweight titles". ESPN. Retrieved 2024-05-21.
- ^ "French boxer Maiva Hamadouche ends career due to eye injury". ESPN. Retrieved 2024-05-21.
External links[edit]
- Boxing record for Maïva Hamadouche from BoxRec (registration required)