Sabriye Şengül (born 12 November 1988) is a Turkish female professional boxer and world champion kickboxer. She competes also in mixed martial arts event.

Martial Arts Career

Sabriye Şengül was born in

Trabzon Trabzon (; Ancient Greek: Tραπεζοῦς (''Trapezous''), Ophitic Pontic Greek: Τραπεζούντα (''Trapezounta''); Georgian: ტრაპიზონი (''Trapizoni'')), historically known as Trebizond in English, is a city on the B ...

, northern Turkey on 12 November 1988. Her sports career began with playing handball. Upon her coach's advice, she switched over to boxing in 2006. She won three Turkish Boxing Championship titles. In 2016, she became world champion in 57 kg kickboxing winning over Belgian Vanessa de Waelle by points at the WKU World Title Fight in

Kickboxing Kickboxing is a combat sport focused on kicking and punching. The combat takes place in a boxing ring, normally with boxing gloves, mouthguards, shorts, and bare feet to favour the use of kicks. Kickboxing is practiced for self-defense, gen ...

with Knie held in

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, Turkey. She won the world champion title for the second time defeating Austrian Christin Fedller at the

ISKA The ISKA (originally International Sport Karate Association, later also called the International Sport Kickboxing Association) is one of the major international bodies regulating sport karate and kickboxing matches, and is based in the Unite ...

Vendetta Professional World Kickboxing Championships in

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, Austria in 2018. By April 2017, she signed for the flyweight division of the

mixed martial arts Mixed martial arts (MMA), sometimes referred to as cage fighting, no holds barred (NHB), and ultimate fighting, and originally referred to as Vale Tudo is a full-contact combat sport based on strike (attack), striking, grappling and ground f ...

event

Bellator MMA Bellator MMA (formerly Bellator Fighting Championships) is an American mixed martial arts promotion founded in 2008 and based in Santa Monica, California, owned and operated as a subsidiary of television and media conglomerate Paramount Glob ...

. At her first fight for Bellator London 2 in November 2019, she lost to Dutch

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by Americana submission in 32 seconds in the first round. Şengül participated at '' Survivor Turkeys 2019 season. By June 2021, she fought in a MMA game against French Mona Ftouhi in Dubai, UAE, and won by

points decision A points decision is a winning criterion in several full-contact combat sports, such as boxing, kickboxing, Muay Thai, mixed martial arts and others sports involving striking. Unlike normal decisions where there are three judges that agree on whic ...

Mixed martial arts record

, - , Loss , align=center, 2–3 , Hassna Gaber , Decision (unanimous) , UAE Warriors 29 , , align=center, 3 , align=center, 5:00 , Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates , , - , Loss , align=center, 2–2 , Antonia Prifti , TKO (head kick and punches) , Vendetta 24 , , align=center, 2 , align=center, 0:18 ,

, Turkey , , - , Win , align=center, 2–1 , Martina Gemrani , Submission , Vendetta 21 , , align=center, 1 , align=center, 3:10 ,

, Turkey , , - , Win , align=center, 1–1 , Mona Ftouhi , Decision (unanimous) , UAE Warriors 19 , , align=center, 3 , align=center, 5:00 , Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates , , - , Loss , align=center, 0–1 ,

, Submission (americana) , Bellator London 2 , , align=center, 1 , align=center, 0:32 ,

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, England ,

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Sabriye Sengul
at Bellator (archived) * {{DEFAULTSORT:Sengul, Sabriye 1988 births Living people Turkish women boxers Turkish female kickboxers Flyweight kickboxers Turkish female mixed martial artists Mixed martial artists utilizing boxing Mixed martial artists utilizing kickboxing Bellator female fighters Survivor (franchise) contestants Survivor Turkey contestants Sportspeople from Trabzon