Shelly Vincent

After winning a United States Golden Gloves Championship as an amateur in July 2011, Vincent turned professional later that year.^[3][4]

With a perfect record of 12 wins from 12 pro-fights, she defeated Jackie Trivilino by majority decision to claim the vacant Universal Boxing Federation female super-bantamweight title at Twin River Event Center in Lincoln, Rhode Island, on 7 November 2014, with two of the ringside judges scoring the fight 98–92 and 96–94 respectively in her favour, while the third had it a 95–95 draw.^[5][6]

Returning to the same venue on 3 April 2015, Vincent added the vacant International Boxing Association female super-bantamweight title to her collection with a unanimous decision win over Christina Ruiz.^[4][7]

On 21 August 2016 at Ford Amphitheater in Coney Island, New York, she faced Heather Hardy for the vacant WBC female featherweight International title in the first women's boxing bout televised on NBCSN. Vincent lost the fight, and her unbeaten record, via majority decision with two of the judges' scorecards reading 99–91 and 97–93 respectively for her opponent, overruling the third who saw the contest as a 95–95 tie.^[8][9]

In November 2016, she was named Fighter of the Year at the Connecticut Boxing Hall of Fame Gala.^[4]

Vincent met Hardy in a rematch at Madison Square Garden Theater in New York on 27 October 2018, with the vacant WBO female featherweight title on the line. She again lost the bout, this time by unanimous decision.^[10][11]

Following this defeat, she won three fights in succession in 2019 before taking a break from the ring, returning to secure a unanimous decision success against Shelly Barnett over eight rounds at the MassMutual Center in Springfield, Massachusetts, on 27 November 2021.^[12]

In 2023, Vincent became the first female fighter to be inducted into the Connecticut Boxing Hall of Fame and two years later she entered the International Women's Boxing Hall of Fame.^[3]