Tiara Brown
Tiara Brown | |||||||||||||||
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| Born | 1 June 1988 Fort Myers, Florida, U.S. | ||||||||||||||
| Other names | The Dark Menace | ||||||||||||||
| Statistics | |||||||||||||||
| Weight(s) | Featherweight | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 7 in (170 cm) | ||||||||||||||
| Stance | Orthodox | ||||||||||||||
| Boxing record[1] | |||||||||||||||
| Wins | 19 | ||||||||||||||
| Wins by KO | 11 | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Tiara Brown (born 1 June 1988) is an American professional boxer. She has held the WBC female featherweight title since 22 March 2025.
Career
A gold medalist at the 2012 AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships,[2][3] Brown had won her first 18 professional fights, including 11 knockouts, by the time she challenged WBC female featherweight champion Skye Nicolson at Qudos Bank Arena, Sydney Olympic Park, Australia, on 22 March 2025.[4] She won the fight by split decision with the judges' scores reading 97–93, 96–94 and 94–96.[5][6][7]
Personal life
Brown is a former police officer at the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, D.C. and the Fort Myers Police Department.[7]
References
- ^ "Boxing record for Tiara Brown". BoxRec.
- ^ "US boxing champion is broke, but far from broken". theguardian.com.
- ^ "The Unbreakable Spirit Of Tiara Brown". athlonsports.com.
- ^ "Tiara Brown on Skye Nicolson: She Fights Very Amateurish, Her Style is Very Amateur". ringmagazine.com.
- ^ "Tiara Brown scraps her way to upset split decision over Skye Nicolson". boxingscene.com.
- ^ "Tiara Brown Stuns Skye Nicolson, Wins Split Decision To Claim WBC Featherweight Title". ringmagazine.com.
- ^ a b "Former cop Tiara Brown wins women's WBC featherweight title". espn.co.uk.