Anabel Ortiz

Anabel Ortiz Morales (born 5 July 1986) is a Mexican professional boxer. She is a two-time minimumweight world champion, having held the WBA title since 2013 and previously the WBC title from 2009 to 2011. She also challenged once for the unified WBA, and WBO light flyweight titles in 2012. As of May 2020, she is ranked as the world's fifth best active female minimumweight by BoxRec.[2]

Anabel Ortiz
Statistics
Real nameAnabel Ortiz Morales
Nickname(s)Avispa
Weight(s)
Height5 ft 0 in (152 cm)
Reach62 1⁄2 in (159 cm)
NationalityMexican
Born (1986-07-05) 5 July 1986
Tepic, Mexico
StanceOrthodox
Boxing record[1]
Total fights34
Wins31
Wins by KO4
Losses3

Professional boxing career

Ortiz won the World Boxing Council minimumweight title in November 2009 with a unanimous decision (96–94, 96–94, 97–93) defeat of Caroline Moreno[3] and defended it against Nanako Kikuchi in September 2010[4] before losing the title to Naoko Fujioka in May 2011. Ortiz was knocked down twice by Fujioka during the match, and lost by TKO.[5] She fought Yésica Bopp for the World Boxing Association (WBA) and World Boxing Organisation Light flyweight titles in May 2012, but was unsuccessful.[4]

A split decision victory over Etsuko Tada in July 2013 saw Ortiz gain the WBA minimumweight world title. She retained the title in matches against Hye Soo Park in November 2013, Neisi Torres in July 2014, and Tada in November 2014.[4] 2015 saw Ortiz keep hold of the title against Nana Yoshikawa in April (unanimous decision) and again against Sandra Robles in September (six round technical decision).[6] She also beat Suri Tapia in November.[4]

Ortiz continued her winning streak into 2016 with further successful defences against Katia Gutierrez in April, Jolene Blackshear in June and Debora Rengifo in October. She remained undefeated into 2020, seeing off title challenges from Nancy Franco in 2017, from Yenifer Leon in 2018, and Maria Milano in 2019. All of her wins from 2016 to 2019 were by unanimous decision except against Blackshear, which was a win by TKO.[4] A non-title defeat of Brenda Ramos in January 2020 was Ortiz's 14th consecutive victory, and bought her record to 24–3 including four knockouts.[7]

Her boxing nickname is Avispa.[4] She has two daughters.[8]

References
  1. "Boxing record for Anabel Ortiz". BoxRec.
  2. "BoxRec: Female minimumweight ratings". boxrec.com. Retrieved 19 May 2020.
  3. "Local Roundup: Moreno suffers second professional loss". Santa Cruz Sentinel. 2 November 2009. Retrieved 11 March 2020.
  4. "Anabel Ortiz". boxrec.com. BoxRec. Retrieved 11 March 2020.
  5. "Boxing: Fujioka crowned WBC mini fly champ as Japanese sweep tripleheader". Kyodo News International. 8 May 2011 – via NewsBank. Retrieved 11 March 2020.
  6. Wyatt, James (26 January 2016). "World Boxing Council's Female Convention in Tijuana". San Diego Examiner – via NewsBank. Retrieved 11 March 2020.
  7. Salazar, Francisco (23 January 2020). "Anabel Ortiz stays busy with non-title victory over Brenda Ramos". ringtv.com. The Ring. Archived from the original on 25 January 2017. Retrieved 11 March 2020.
  8. Martinez, Diego (6 March 2020). "Le dan pelea a violencia – 8-9M. Respaldan boxeadoras el paro femenil. Viven campeonas las dificultades de ser el sostén familiar, pero apoyan protesta contra agresiones" [They fight violence – 8–9 March. Boxers support women's strike. The difficulties of being the family support affect champions, but they support the protests against aggression]. Reforma (in Spanish). Mexico City – via NewsBank. Retrieved 11 March 2020.
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