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Women's boxing Pound for Pound rankings: Can anyone stop Katie Taylor?

After revealing the best Pound for Pound fighters in the men's game, Boxing365 now looks at who is the queen of the ring.

After revealing the best Pound for Pound fighters in the men's game, Boxing365 now looks at who is the queen of the ring.

1) Katie Taylor - 16-0

The most lucrative female fighter has captured the imagination of the public and in the process has become a two-division champion. The "Bray Bomber" is the undisputed lightweight titlist and has held this status since 2019 with victory over Delfine Persoon.

Her victory over the Belgian was a controversial result at Madison Square Garden on the undercard of Anthony Joshua's crushing defeat to Andy Ruiz Jr. Determined to silence any doubters, she repeated victory over Persoon on the final week of Matchroom Boxing's Fight Camp via unanimous decision.

Katie Taylor in a press conference

Taylor is an undefeated two-division world champion who fights under the Matchroom Boxing banner

In between those two bouts, Taylor won the WBO junior welterweight crown with a points win against Christina Linardatou. The Irish superstar is expected to return to the ring in November.

2) Claressa Shields - 10-0

The American looks unstoppable no matter which weight she fights at. Having started off at middleweight, the two-time Olympic champion made her highly anticipated debut on the professional circuit in 2016, and in just four fights she became the WBC and inaugural IBF super middleweight champion.
Two fights later, "T-Rex" added the WBA and IBF middleweight titles to her mantel piece before unifying the division with victory over British boxer Hannah Rankin. In 2019, Shields outpointed former multi-world titlist Christina Hammer to become undisputed champion at middleweight.
In her 10th and most recent fight, Shields - who refers to herself as the G.W.O.A.T won the junior middleweight championship against Ivana Habazin. The American is boxing's quickest three-division champion in the history of sport, overtaking Vasyl Lomachenko who was the previous record-holder with 12 fights.

3) Amanda Serrano - 38-1-1

The Puerto Rican fighter is a seven-division world champion who outclassed Heather Hardy in her last world title fight to win the inaugural WBC and WBO featherweight belts. Serrano's most recent victory saw her beat Simone Aparecida Da Silva inside three rounds via TKO.

Alongside sister Cindy Serrano, the pair became the first sisters to both hold major world titles in 2016. Manny Pacquiao is the only fighter to have won more world titles in as many different weight classes - eight. Serrano had been expected to take on Taylor is the biggest women's fight of all time before negotiations collapsed because of an 'insulting offer' from promoter Eddie Hearn.

4) Jessica McCaskill - 9-2

In a surprise turn of events, McCaskill shocked the world by outpointing Cecilia Braekhus to become undisputed welterweight champion. A rematch between the duo is expected to happen in 2021.
Her first world title challenge was an unsuccessful one to Taylor in 2017 but in her second attempt at junior welterweight, she won the WBC title against Erica Farias in 2018. She unified the division with victory over Anahi Ester Sanchez before defeating Farias once again.

5) Cecilia Braekhus - 36-1

The first woman to hold the WBA, WBC, IBF and WBO titles simultaneously, the 2017 Fighter of the Year dominated the welterweight division until McCaskill inflicted the first defeat of her professional career.
The Columbian-born, Norwegian, had previously made 25 consecutive world title defences and equalled the record set by heavyweight legend Joe Louis. She was also the longest reigning female world champion, the longest reigning four-belt titleholder and had the best unbeaten record (36).

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