{"id":190333,"date":"2025-10-04T22:02:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T22:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/190333\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T22:02:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T22:02:06","slug":"cecilia-braekhus-retires-after-becoming-two-weight-world-champion-in-final-bout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/190333\/","title":{"rendered":"Cecilia Braekhus retires after becoming two-weight world champion in final bout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Norway&#8217;s Cecilia Braekhus ended her illustrious career in style, beating Ema Kozin on points to claim the WBC and WBO light-middleweight titles in her final bout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 44-year-old rolled back the years with sharp attacks to the head and body in a dominant performance in Lillestrom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The judges scored it 97-93, 96-94 and 98-92, as Braekhus became a world champion in a second weight division.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The &#8216;First Lady&#8217; of boxing fell to her knees when the scores were read out, with head in hands &#8211; clearly overcome with emotion, having previously announced that the fight would be her last.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I want to thank the boxing community all over the world, my friends in England, LA, everyone. I&#8217;m so happy,&#8221; Braekhus said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Braekhus &#8211; who in 2014 became the first female boxer to hold all four major belts simultaneously &#8211; retires with a record of 39 wins, two defeats and one draw.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Having made her debut in 2007, she dominated the welterweight division, defending her unified world titles for more than a decade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She was also instrumental in overturning Norway&#8217;s 33-year ban on professional boxing in 2014, making her retirement on home soil especially poignant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Norway&#8217;s Cecilia Braekhus ended her illustrious career in style, beating Ema Kozin on points to claim the WBC&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-190333","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-boxing","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}