Layla Eveleen McCarter (born April 19, 1979) is an American
professional boxer
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.
Career
She has held multiple world titles across five weight divisions, having held the
WIBF welterweight
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title since 2018 and previously the
featherweight
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Boxing
Professional boxing
History
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title in 2000; the WIBF
super lightweight
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Boxing Professional boxing
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title in 2003; the
WBA female
lightweight
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title twice between 2007 and 2009; and the WBA female
super welterweight
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title in 2012.
In 2016 January
Ring
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magazine considered Layla McCarter the 10th best female boxer of all time.
She was also awarded by the Nevada and California Boxing Hall of Fame, and recently in February 2017 she was signed by Mayweather Promotions, as its second female boxer.
Public challenge to Ronda Rousey
On July 31, 2015,
Ronda Rousey
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She was the first Am ...
's trainer,
Edmond Tarverdyan
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, expressed the belief that his fighter "can win the boxing world title" while discussing a potential fight with
Cris Cyborg
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.
After noting that "Ronda spars with boxing world champions that punch way harder than Cyborg", Tarverdyan claimed that she "has never lost a round in the gym. A round. With boxing world champions".
Layla McCarter is the current
Big Knockout Boxing
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female champion and immediately challenged Ronda Rousey to boxing match.
Alongside
Amanda Serrano
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went on to criticize Rousey's
stand-up fighting
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technique stating in
the Guardian
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“She’s very good at what she does, but she needs to stay in her lane because boxing takes a lot of experience to reach the top level.
“She better just stay in her lane because she’s going to get hurt.”.
Professional boxing record
See also
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See also
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References
External links
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1978 births
Living people
American women boxers
Sportspeople from Alameda, California
Boxers from California
World lightweight boxing champions
World light-middleweight boxing champions
World Boxing Association champions
American female kickboxers
Kickboxers from California
21st-century American sportswomen
20th-century American sportswomen