Yvonne Caples
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| Yvonne Caples | |
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| Real name | Yvonne Tara Caples[1] |
| Weight(s) | |
| Height | 5 ft 4 in (163 cm) |
| Reach | 64 in (163 cm) |
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| Born | 14 June 1972 Pune, India |
| Stance | Southpaw |
| Boxing record | |
| Total fights | 22 |
| Wins | 7 |
| Wins by KO | 1 |
| Losses | 12 |
| Draws | 2 |
| Website | yvonnecaples |
Yvonne Caples (born 14 June 1972) is an Indian-born American former professional boxer who competed between 1999 and 2014. She held the IFBA light flyweight title in 2003 and challenged for multiple world championships during her career; the WIBF light flyweight title in 2002; the WIBA minimumweight title twice in 2004 and 2005; and the WBC female light flyweight title in 2005.
Professional career[]
Caples became a professional boxer in 1999. Before fighting for the world championship, she had to meet the likes of , Elena Reid and former world champion Para Draine before meeting Regina Halmich in Germany for the WIBF world Jr. Flyweight title, on 17 August 2002. She lost the fight by a majority decision.
Three months later, on 22 November, she found herself inside a boxing ring in Guam, where she fought for the vacant WIBA Light Flyweight Intercontinental championship, and Caples was defeated by 5th round technical knockout, stopped on a cut in a fight in Caples was winning on all scorecards.[2]
Caples finally reached her dream of becoming a world champion when she defeated on 26 July 2003 in Costa Mesa, California by a ten-round unanimous decision for the vacant IFBA world Jr. Flyweight title.
Caples then travelled to Trinidad to challenge Ria Ramnarine for the vacant WIBA Mini Flyweight World Title. Caples lost a controversial 10-round split decision.
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Professional boxing record[]
| 27 fights | 25 wins | 1 loss |
| By knockout | 8 | 0 |
| By decision | 17 | 1 |
| Draws | 1 | |
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Personal life[]
Caples attends the University of California, Berkeley when she is not preparing for a fight.[citation needed] She hopes to become a medical doctor in sports medicine, and she has a B.A. in English, also obtained at that institution. She was also a high school computer teacher at West Career and Technical Academy in Las Vegas.[citation needed]
References[]
- ^ "Yvonne Caples". BoxRec. Retrieved 9 February 2016.
- ^ Heiskanen, Benita (2012). The Urban Geography of Boxing: Race, Class, and Gender in the Ring. Routledge. p. 65. ISBN 9780415502269. Retrieved 9 February 2016.
External links[]
- 1972 births
- Sportspeople from Pune
- Living people
- American women boxers
- UC Berkeley College of Letters and Science alumni
- Sportswomen from Maharashtra
- American sportspeople of Indian descent
- Mini-flyweight boxers