Maïva Hamadouche


Maïva Hamadouche is a French professional boxer and police officer who held the IBF female super-featherweight title from November 2016 to November 2021. At regional level, she held the French female lightweight title in 2014 and the European female lightweight title in 2015.
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Life and career

Hamadouche was born in Albi, in the Tarn department. She was raised by a single mother in a family of 6 children. With a baccalauréat economique et social she first planned to study law but abandoned this idea because of family and economic difficulties. Also interested in the army and more precisely in demining, she was received in the contest of the National Active Non-Commissioned Officers School of Saint-Maixent. Not wishing to leave France to continue to devote herself to boxing, she finally decided, at age 19, to make a career in the police. So, in 2009, she joined the Rouen police academy.
She worked for two years in Asnières-sur-Seine then joined in 2014 the Compagnie de sécurisation et d'intervention of Paris. In March 2018 she received the bronze honour medal for courage and devotion from the city of Paris for having rescued in June 2017 a young Mauritanian migrant, injured by a driver, by applying a tourniquet on his leg.

Sports career

After practicing football, she started to train savate at the age of 14, and also practiced boxing afterwards. She became a professional in 2013. She trained in Saint-Juéry at the beginning, then in Clichy after moving to Paris, having Sot Mezaache as her coach.
She is seven-time vice-champion of France in savate and English boxing, eventually opting for the second discipline despite her debut in French boxing.
In March 2015, in Milan, she became European lightweight champion, while the title was vacant, beating Italy's Anita Torti by throw of the towel in the 5th round then she retained his title in May in Clichy, winning on points in ten rounds against the same competitor.
In November 2016, Maïva Hamadouche won her first IBF World Super featherweight title, still vacant, winning by points in 10 rounds in Paris against the American Jennifer Salinas. She became the third Frenchwoman to win that title after Myriam Lamare and Anne-Sophie Mathis. She retained the title in January 2017 against Milena Koleva, from Bulgaria, in May 2017 against Anahí Ester Sánchez, from Argentina, then in 2018 against the French Myriam Dellal. In 4 December 2018, Maïva Hamadouche kept her IBF world champion title, for the fifth time, against Brazil's Viviane Obenauf.
Taking advantage of a rule change which allowed professional boxers to compete in the Olympics, Hamadouche qualified for the delayed 2020 Tokyo Games only to lose in her opening contest to Finland's Mira Potkonen.
On 5 November 2021, she returned to professional competition to take on WBO female super-featherweight World champion Mikaela Mayer in a contest that saw both women's titles and the inaugural Ring female super-featherweight belt on the line. Mayer prevailed by unanimous decision.
Hamadouche announced her retirement from boxing in May 2023 due to an eye injury that would no longer allow her to fight.

Professional boxing record

No.ResultRecordOpponentTypeRound, timeDateLocationNotes
24Loss22–2Mikaela MayerUD102021-11-05The Theater at Virgin Hotels, Paradise, Nevada, U.S.Lost IBF super-featherweight title;
For WBO super-featherweight title
23Win22–1Nina PavlovicTKO8 2020-12-17Allianz Cloud Arena, Milan, ItalyRetained IBF super-featherweight title
22Win21–1Janeth PérezTKO6 2019-07-18Theatre du Tivoli, Le Cannet, FranceRetained IBF super-featherweight title
21Win20–1Viviane ObenaufRTD5 2018-12-04Le Zénith, Paris, FranceRetained IBF super-featherweight title
20Win19–1Gabriella MezeiKO1 2018-10-11Palais des Sports, Orléans, France
19Win18–1Myriam DellalMD102018-01-20Palais des sports Marcel-Cerdan, Levallois-Perret, FranceRetained IBF super-featherweight title
18Win17–1Milena KolevaTKO4 2017-11-11Vélodrome National, Montigny-le-Bretonneux, France
17Win16–1Anahí Ester SánchezTKO4 2017-05-18Cirque d'hiver, Paris, FranceRetained IBF super-featherweight title
16Win15–1Milena KolevaTKO9 2017-01-21Palais des sports Marcel-Cerdan, Levallois-Perret, FranceRetained IBF super-featherweight title
15Win14–1Jennifer SalinasUD102016-11-10Halle Georges Carpentier, Paris, FranceWon vacant IBF super-featherweight title
14Win13–1Enis PachecoTKO2 2016-05-27Cirque d'hiver, Paris, FranceWon vacant WBC Silver lightweight title
13Win12–1Maria SemertzoglouUD82016-04-28Casino Ruhl, Nice, France
12Win11–1Angel McKenzieTKO1 2016-03-18Gymnase Georges Racine, Clichy, France
11Win10–1Aouatif Al KallachiTKO5 2015-12-17Cirque d'hiver, Paris, France
10Loss9–1Delfine PersoonUD102015-11-11Zwevezele, BelgiumFor WBC lightweight title
9Win9–0Suzana RadovanovicTKO1 2015-10-03Gymnase Royallieu, Compiègne, France
8Win8–0Anita TortiUD102015-05-22Gymnase Georges Racine, Clichy, FranceRetained European lightweight title
7Win7–0Anita TortiTKO5 2015-03-21Teatro Principe, Milan, ItalyWon vacant European lightweight title
6Win6–0Galina GyumliyskaTKO4 2015-02-21Sala Polivalenta, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
5Win5–0Johanne CavarecTKO3 2014-11-15Salle Louison Bobet, Aix-en-Provence, France
4Win4–0Wendy GervoisTKO4 2014-05-16Gymnase Georges Racine, Clichy, FranceWon vacant French lightweight title
3Win3–0Floarea LihetRTD3 2014-03-14Salle Jean Blot, Courbevoie, Courbevoie, France
2Win2–0Mirabela Nadina CalugareanuTKO2 2014-01-25Horia Demian Sports Hall, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
1Win1–0Karina SzmalenbergTKO2 2013-12-07Gymnase Georges Racine, Clichy, France