Érica Anabella Farías (born 13 July 1984), known as "La Pantera", is an Argentine

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. She is a two-weight world champion, having held the WBC female

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title from 2011 to 2014 and the WBC female

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title from 2014 to 2018. She also challenged once for the undisputed

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championship in 2017. As an amateur, she won a silver medal at the 2006 World Championships.

Amateur career

Farias made her competitive debut as an amateur on 10 December 2005, against Carolina Lopez. She won a gold medal at the 2006 Pan American Championships in

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, Argentina, and silver at the 2006 World Championships in

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, India, losing to

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of Ireland in the final, both in the

division.

Professional career

Farias made her professional debut on 25 July 2009, at Estadio F.A.B. in

. She won a four-round

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over Betiana Patricia Viñas. Farias won her fight against Ann Saccurato in 2011, after it was stopped in the eighth round due to an accidental clash of heads. On 4 April 2014, Farias made the tenth defense of her WBC

title against Delfine Persoon. She lost in a ten-round unanimous decision. Farias won her second world title, WBC

, on 15 November 2014, defeating Alejandra Oliveras by

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. On 2 May 2015, she made the first defense of her title against Klara Svensson. She won by unanimous decision. On 9 June 2017, Farias challenged undisputed

champion

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, but lost by unanimous decision. Farías lost her WBC super-lightweight title to Jessica McCaskill at the

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in Chicago, USA, on October 6, 2018, by unanimous decision.

Professional boxing record

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Farias, Erica 1984 births Living people Boxers from Buenos Aires Argentine women boxers World Boxing Council champions World lightweight boxing champions World light-welterweight boxing champions AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships medalists