Boxing Profile: Simona Galassi

Her last match was held at Forlì, in the Emilia Romagna region of Italy, on 29 March, 2008. Simona Galassi, an Italian queen of women’s boxing is trained by Valerio Nati, and in the match against reigning WBC Female Flyweight Champion, Stefania Bianchini, she showed her natural strength and her good physical condition.

At the end of the ten rounds, Simona was ahead by points, and defeated Bianchini to win the WBC crown. Both of the boxers were past champions of Thai Boxing.

Women’s boxing is actually a growing standard in Italy and all over Europe. The ‘boxe in pink’, as it is called in Italy, is a growing phenomena that has a great number of fans. Women’s amateur boxing appeared in the international scene in 1997 in Athens, when the Acropolis Cup was held.

Unfortunately, women’s boxing is not yet a Olympic specialty, so we will not see it included at the coming Olympic Games in Beijing.

Simona Galassi came from martial arts and kickboxing, and she won the European and the World championship in those disciplines before stepping into the boxing ring.

Simona started boxing at the World Championship at Scranton in 2001, and was named top boxer of the tournament and given the Outstanding Boxer Award. Moreover, she had an impressive win over Tammy De Laforest of Canada and she become the world champion.

Galassi went on to dominate the amateur scene with three world titles conquered by the 35 years old athlete of the team Edera Boxe. She then signed on to the stable of professional promoter OPI 2000 and now she is a good professional with a 7-0-1 (3) record and the world champ of the flyweights at 50.8 Kgs.