TOP 12 POUND-FOR-POUND WOMEN
Honoring the best female fighters in the world and the remarkable stories behind their greatness.
Super Featherweight
17-1-0
Score: 0.775
- Boxing is in her blood. Her grandfather, grandmother, father, uncles, cousins, and an aunt all fought or trained. Her grandfather dreamed someone in the family would become a world champion, and Alycia fulfilled that dream.
- Lived on a friend's couch in Toledo for nearly a year, borrowing cars to get to work and training, while pursuing her boxing career.
- Became undisputed super featherweight champion in 2023, holding the WBC, WBO, IBF, WBA, IBO, and Ring magazine titles simultaneously.
Super Lightweight
25-1-0
Score: 0.748
- Had to disguise herself as a boy to get fights. Women's boxing was prohibited in Ireland when she started, so she entered competitions as 'K Taylor,' tucking her hair inside her headgear.
- Won gold at the 2012 Olympics, the very first year women's boxing was included. She also won five consecutive World Championship golds and six European Championship golds.
- Her fight against Amanda Serrano in April 2022 was the first women's boxing match to headline Madison Square Garden, generating $1.45 million in ticket revenue.
Featherweight
48-4-1
Score: 0.729
- Holds the Guinness World Record for most boxing world championships won in different weight classes by a female: 9 world titles across 7 divisions, a feat matched only by Manny Pacquiao.
- She and her sister Cindy became the first sisters to simultaneously hold world titles from major sanctioning bodies.
- Named WBAN Fighter of the Year five times (2016, 2019, 2021, 2023, 2024), more than any other female boxer.
Super Lightweight
22-1-0
Score: 0.709
- Credits Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Jean-Claude Van Damme movies for sparking her love of combat sports. She started kickboxing at age 10 before switching to boxing at 18.
- Became England's first-ever female undisputed professional boxing champion by unifying all four major belts at super lightweight.
- Vacated her WBC super lightweight title in October 2025 as a protest for equality, stating her decision was about female boxers not receiving the same opportunities and respect as men.
Super Featherweight
50-3-0
Score: 0.708
- Works full-time as a Belgian federal railway policewoman while competing at world championship level. She used 55 days of vacation time to prepare for her fight against Katie Taylor.
- Self-promoted her own fight shows and sold tickets independently to build her career, since Belgium offered virtually no infrastructure for female professional boxers.
- Came from a farming family and started in judo, switching to boxing only after a back injury ended her judo career. Named Belgian Sportswoman of the Year in 2015.
Welterweight
18-0-0
Score: 0.705
- Raised in poverty in Flint, Michigan during its water crisis, with her father incarcerated and her mother struggling with addiction. She became the first member of her family to graduate high school.
- Won back-to-back Olympic gold medals in 2012 and 2016, the first American boxer (male or female) to win consecutive Olympic golds.
- The only female boxer in history to hold all four major world titles in three different weight classes. Her life story was made into the biopic 'The Fire Inside.'
Super Featherweight
11-1-0
Score: 0.685
- A rapid riser who only turned professional in May 2022 and was named 2025 Women's Fighter of the Year by both BoxingScene and The Sporting News.
- Defeated previously unbeaten IBF lightweight champion Beatriz Ferreira by TKO in December 2025, one of the biggest upsets in recent women's boxing.
- Won her last four fights by stoppage, establishing herself as one of the highest-profile Turkish boxers internationally after signing with Matchroom Boxing.
Super Lightweight
20-0-0
Score: 0.675
- In a rare reverse-career move, she stepped back from a flourishing professional career to return to the amateur ranks at age 32, specifically to chase Olympic qualification. The Belgian Boxing Federation had to lobby international officials on her behalf to allow her reinstatement, an exception almost never granted in modern boxing.
- Became the first Belgian female boxer to qualify for an Olympic Games when she earned her spot at Paris 2024. Her qualifying run came in Bangkok, where she defeated higher-ranked opponents from established boxing powerhouse nations to seal the place.
- Undefeated across 20 professional bouts and the first Belgian woman to win a contest at a World Boxing Championships. She trains in West Flanders and has helped open three new women's boxing programmes at gyms across Belgium since her Olympic qualification.
Lightweight
11-0-1
Score: 0.672
- Scored one of the most spectacular knockouts in women's boxing history, winning the South American lightweight title by stopping the previously undefeated Johen Paola Gonzalez in just 10 seconds, the kind of moment that travels through the sport on highlight reels for years.
- Argentina has long produced great boxers but the women's professional pathway has been thin. Ferreyra is one of only a small number of Argentine women to compete in a major-belt world title fight, building her case for global recognition through Buenos Aires fight nights that draw devoted crowds despite minimal promotion budgets.
- Pursued her world title dream for nine years before earning her shot at the IBF lightweight championship. Her husband Federico Diaz, a former amateur himself, has trained her since their first months together and corners her on every fight night.
Super Lightweight
12-0-0
Score: 0.666
- The first boxer ever signed by Claressa Shields' T-Rex Promotions when the company launched in 2024. The two have been close friends since competing together on Team USA at the 2013 Youth World Championships, when they were both teenagers chasing the same Olympic dream.
- Captured her first major title belt at the Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville, Kentucky, a venue chosen for its symbolic weight. The Ali Center sits two blocks from the gym where the young Cassius Clay first learned to fight, and Worthington has spoken about the responsibility of carrying his city's name on her record.
- Built a 36-14 amateur record across more than five years on the US national circuit, including five national championship medals and a bronze at the Youth World Championships, before turning professional with a first-round knockout in her debut.
Lightweight
13-0-1
Score: 0.660
- To get her first amateur fights, she disguised herself as a boy named 'Colin' because amateur boxing in England refused to match her against girls in her age bracket. The deception was eventually discovered by the head of England Boxing.
- Younger sister of heavyweight world champion Daniel Dubois. The siblings grew up sparring each other in the family gym their father built at their home in southeast London.
- Reached the quarterfinals of the Tokyo Olympics at just 20 years old, then turned professional and captured the WBC lightweight world title undefeated. She trains primarily out of England under Shane McGuigan.
Super Welterweight
38-2-1
Score: 0.656
- Professional boxing was literally illegal in her home country. Norway banned pro boxing in 1981, so she fought abroad for the first nine years of her career. She was instrumental in getting the ban overturned in 2014.
- The first woman in boxing history to hold all four major world titles simultaneously, achieving undisputed welterweight status in 2014. She matched Joe Louis' record of 25 consecutive title defenses.
- Born in Cartagena, Colombia and adopted at age 2 by Norwegian parents. Guinness recognized her with three world records in 2018.