2000s–2020sNorwegian / ColombianOrthodoxretired
Cecilia Brækhus
“The First Lady”
Record: 37–2 (9 KO)Weight class: WelterweightBorn: 1981-09-28
Titles & honours
- Undisputed Welterweight Champion (2014–2020)
Biography
Cecilia Brækhus — born Cartagena, Colombia in 1981 and adopted by a Norwegian family — held all four major welterweight titles simultaneously from September 2014 to August 2020. Her six-year reign (25 successful defences, ten of them unifications) is the longest unified women's welterweight title-holding span in history. Brækhus fought the first ever sanctioned women's professional boxing match on Norwegian soil after Norway lifted its 26-year ban on pro boxing in 2014. Lost the unified title to Jessica McCaskill in August 2020 in a fight held on the public riverwalk in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Now retired.