Beatriz Ferreira


Beatriz Iasmin Soares Ferreira is a Brazilian professional boxer. She held IBF lightweight title from April 2024 to December 2025.
Ferreira won the gold medal at the 2019 AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships, and the 2021 Moscow Military World Games in the up to 60 kg category.
She represented Brazil at the 2020 Summer Olympics, winning the silver medal in the women's lightweight event, the best performance by a Brazilian female boxer. Ferreira returned in the 2024 Summer Olympics, winning the bronze.
Ferreira won the vacant IBF female lightweight title with a technical knockout win over Yanina del Carmen Lescano on 27 April 2024.
She is the eldest of three daughters by a fellow boxer, Raimundo Ferreira, known as "Sergipe" and twice Brazilian champion and three times champion of their home state of Bahia. A fan of boxing from childhood, by the age of 15 she was already teaching the fight. As part of the Olympic Experience program, Beatriz was the sparring of eventual medalist Adriana Araújo at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio.
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Medals and awards

National

  • 2× Open Games of the Interior
  • 2× Paulista Champion
  • 4× Brazilian Champion

International

  • 2× Gold — World Championship
  • 1× Silver — World Championship
  • 1× Silver — Olympic Games
  • 3× Gold — Strandja Tournament
  • 2× Gold — Belgrade Winner Tournament
  • 1× Gold — Continental Elite Women
  • 1× Gold — XI South American Games
  • 1× Gold — Continental Elite Women
  • 1× Gold — Balkan Tournament
  • 1× Gold — Feliks Stamm Tournament
  • 1× Gold — Grand Prix Ustí Nad Laben
  • 1× Gold — Pan American Games
  • 1× Gold — Selesian Tournament
  • 1× Gold — Balkan Tournament
  • 1× Gold — Cologne Worldcup
  • 1× Gold — Military World Championship
  • 1× Gold — Bosckai Tournament
  • 1× Gold — Continental AMBC Elite
  • 1× Gold — Grand Prix-Brazil
  • 1× Silver — Elimination Pan American Games
  • 1× Silver — 69th Strandja Tournament
  • 1× Silver — Feliks Stamm Tournament
  • 1× Bronze — Magomed-Salam Mackhachkala Tournament

Individual awards

  • 2× Best Athlete in Brazil
  • Best athlete in the world by Aiba
  • 3× Best Boxing Athlete by COB

Professional career

IBF lightweight champion

On 27 April 2024 at Exhibition Centre Liverpool in Liverpool, England, Ferreira defeated Yanina del Carmen Lescano via sixth-round technical decision to win the vacant IBF female lightweight title.
Ferreira made the first defense of her title against Licia Boudersa in Monte-Carlo, Monaco on 14 December 2024. Ferreira won the fight by unanimous decision.
Ferreira made the second defense of her title against Maria Ines Ferreyra at Caribe Royale Orlando, Florida, on 7 June 2025. She won by unanimous decision.
A unanimous decision win over Maira Moneo at ARCA Spaces in São Paulo on 27 September 2025, saw her retain her title for the third time.
Ferreira made the fourth defense of her championship against Elif Nur Turhan at Salle des Étoiles in Monte Carlo on 6 December 2025. She lost via stoppage in the fifth round.

Professional boxing record

No.ResultRecordOpponentTypeRound, timeDateLocationNotes
9Loss8–1Elif Nur TurhanTKO5 6 Dec 2025Salle des Etoiles, Monte Carlo, MonacoLost IBF female lightweight title
8Win8–0Maira MoneoUD1027 Sep 2025ARCA Spaces, São Paulo, BrazilRetained IBF female lightweight title
7Win7–0Maria Ines FerreyraUD107 Jun 2025Caribe Royale Orlando, Orlando, Florida, U.SRetained IBF female lightweight title
6Win6–0Licia BoudersaUD1014 Dec 2024Salle des Étoiles, Monte Carlo, MonacoRetained IBF female lightweight title
5Win5–0Yanina del Carmen Lescano6 27 Apr 2024Exhibition Centre, Liverpool, EnglandWon vacant IBF female lightweight title
4Win4–0Destiny Jones8 9 Dec 2023Chase Center, San Francisco, California, U.S.
3Win3–0Karla Ramos Zamora81 Jul 2023Sheffield Arena, Sheffield, England
2Win2–0Carisse Brown2 3 Dec 2022Gila River Arena, Glendale, Arizona, U.S.
1Win1–0Taynna Cardoso412 Nov 2022Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.