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It has been
announced that former
World Boxing Federation (WBF)
Womens World Light Welterweight
Champion
Myriam Lamare
from France is among the five
retired boxers inducted into the
International Womens Boxing Hall
of Fame in 2018.
The other four 2018
boxer-honorees are fellow former
world champions Belinda
Laracuente, Jessica Rakoczy,
Mary Joe Sanders and Vonda Ward.
Already inducted are some of the
biggest female names the sport
has to offer, such as Christy
Martin, Regina Halmich, Anne
Wolfe, Lucia Rijker and Laila
Ali.
Myriam Lamare, 22-4 (10), won
the WBF World Light Welterweight
title in October of 2009, and
made two successful defenses.
She has also held WBA, IBF and
WIBF world championships.
Lamare only lost to top fighters
Anne Sophie Mathis (twice) and
Holly Holm,
both former WBF World Champions,
as well as unified world
welterweight champion Cecilia
Breakhus in what was Lamare´s
final fight in February of 2014.
In announcing her induction, the
International Womens Boxing Hall
of Fame writes the following
about Lamare:
Myriam Lamare epitomized the
noun "fighter." She had one
gear, "all out" and knew only
one direction, "straight ahead."
It is not an overstatement to
call her two bouts with Anne
Sophie Mathis fights that served
to ignite interest in the sport
of female boxing in Europe.
Lamare fought 177 rounds over
her career and was in the ring
with every top boxer in the
sport, ranging from Mathis to
Holm to Braekus.
The World Boxing Federation
(WBF) congratulates our former
world champion on this deserved
honor!
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