{"id":192436,"date":"2025-10-06T00:41:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T00:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/192436\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T00:41:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T00:41:09","slug":"linn-sandstrom-the-hunt-for-flyweight-gold-begins-fightpost-boxing-mma-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/192436\/","title":{"rendered":"Linn Sandstr\u00f6m: The Hunt For Flyweight Gold Begins \u2013 FightPost: Boxing &#038; MMA News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Linn Sandstr\u00f6m: The Hunt For Flyweight Gold Begins<\/p>\n<p>The Linn Sandstr\u00f6m story has always been one of perseverance and an incredible work ethic. A new chapter has begun, and one that Sandstr\u00f6m hopes will end with a world flyweight title. <\/p>\n<p>Many would have walked away from the sport after the underwhelming start Sandstr\u00f6m made to her professional boxing life. There was just one solitary win in her first four fights. But life has changed so much since the latter part of 2021, and a defeat to Natalie Hills. Sandstr\u00f6m has only lost twice since that loss to Hills nearly four years ago, and both of those defeats came in world title fights. A points defeat to the then WBA world super-flyweight champion Clara Lescurat last year snapped her eight-fight unbeaten streak. A third-round stoppage defeat to the impressive Jasmine Artiga in August, in a second attempt at the WBA bauble, signalled a new beginning for the Brazilian-born Sandstr\u00f6m.<\/p>\n<p>A move down to flyweight followed the Artiga setback, and Sandstr\u00f6m made a winning start at her new weight on Friday night when she outpointed the Thailand fighter Kanokwan Wirunpat over ten rounds.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"52585\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/fightpost.co.uk\/2025\/10\/05\/linn-sandstrom-the-hunt-for-flyweight-gold-begins\/fb_img_1759681047278\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/fightpost.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/fb_img_1759681047278.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"904,906\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"FB_IMG_1759681047278\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/fightpost.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/fb_img_1759681047278.jpg?w=300\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/fb_img_1759681047278.jpg\" width=\"904\" height=\"906\" data-id=\"52585\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/fb_img_1759681047278.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-52585\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The seemingly always active Sandstr\u00f6m will make another quick turnaround when she returns to action next month to challenge for the WBA Gold flyweight title. A fight that will undoubtedly push her a little closer to another world title opportunity, this time at flyweight. A division that looks better suited to her after finding the strength and power of Artiga a little too much for her last month in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Linn Sandstr\u00f6m would have been written off again by many after that somewhat one-sided defeat to Artiga, but she has been fighting negativity for much of her boxing life. At 33, Sandstr\u00f6m has got straight back on the horse to go again. It\u2019s a new goal at a new weight. Sandstr\u00f6m has been counted out so many times, but that resilience has served her so well since she turned professional with little expectation in 2020. At flyweight, Sandstr\u00f6m might just get her reward.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\" alt=\"Unknown's avatar\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/a13e65bab495e1ba176821a26007a8498416c15f672d5517bbaeb730ef47fa2c\"  class=\"avatar avatar-80\" height=\"80\" width=\"80\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tPublished by FightPost: MMA &amp; Boxing News\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"author-bio\">\n\t\t\t\tSince entering the world of boxing media in 2015, I have written for Behind the Gloves, Boxing Social and I am current contributing to Boxing News, alongside my work for FightPost.\t\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fightpost.co.uk\/author\/fightbook1\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tView all posts by FightPost: MMA &amp; Boxing News\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tPublished<br \/>\n\t\t\t5th Oct 2025\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Linn Sandstr\u00f6m: The Hunt For Flyweight Gold Begins The Linn Sandstr\u00f6m story has always been one of perseverance&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-192436","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\/192436","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=192436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}