Tina Rupprecht

Two years prior to switching to boxing at the age of 14, Tina Rupprecht had joined her childhood boyfriend in kickboxing lessons.^[1][2] Competing for 1. Boxclub Haan Augsburg e.V., she won the 2009 and 2010 German amateur championships for juniors aged under 19 years in paper weight (up to 46 kg).^[3] Rupprecht participated in the 2010 European Youth & Junior Women's Championships, where, in her first tournament bout, she was defeated by the subsequent champion Maja Strömberg by 1:9 points.^[4] 2011 and 2012, she won the German championships in women's light flyweight.^[3] In addition, Rupprecht won the Bavarian championship in 2012, which she was able to repeat in 2013.^[5] After a dispute with the German Boxing Federation (Deutscher Boxsport-Verband),^[6] with a record of 30 wins, 5 losses and 1 draw, she switched to professional boxing.^[7]

With Rupprecht boxing in a weight class attracting only a small number of boxers, arranging fights with competitors on par is difficult. On 7 December 2013, she won her first professional bout at just 50 seconds into the first round by technical knockout.^[8]

Winning against Spanish boxer Joana Pastrana on 7 October 2016, Rupprecht obtained the vacant WBC silver minimumweight title.^[9]

On 6 May 2017, she won the vacant IBO minimumweight intercontinental championship by defeating Venezuelan fighter Luisana Bolívar.^[10]

Rupprecht defeated French boxer Anne Sophie Da Costa on 2 December 2017, to become WBC interim champion and the mandatory challenger for the world championship.^[11]

After reigning champion Momo Koseki retired from professional boxing in January 2018, Costa Rican Yokasta Valle was named as Rupprecht's opponent for the vacant world championship. She won the bout in Munich on 16 June 2018, by unanimous decision.^[12]

Rupprecht held the title for almost four years until 25 March 2023, when she lost in an unification contest to WBA champion Seniesa Estrada at the Save Mart Center in Fresno, California, USA, by unanimous decision.^[13]

She became a two-weight world champion by defeating Fabiana Bytyqi via unanimous decision for the WBC atomweight title at Verti Music Hall in Friedrichshain, Germany, on 13 January 2024.^[14]

Rupprecht then added the WBA and WBO belts to her collection with a unanimous decision success over Eri Matsuda at Olympiastützpunkt in Heidelberg, Germany, on 23 November 2024.^[15][16]

She faced IBF female atomweight title holder Sumire Yamanaka in a contest to crown an undisputed champion for the division at the MBS Arena in Potsdam, Germany, on 5 April 2025.^[17] Rupprecht won by majority decision with two of the ringside judges scoring the contest 99–91 and 96–95 respectively in her favour, while the third had it a 95–95 draw.^{[18][19][20][21]}

Rupprecht announced her retirement from professional boxing in October 2025.^[22]

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