Here is all you need to know about Elizabeth Oshoba along with her age and height as she becomes the first Nigerian female boxer to win World Title
The world featherweight champion in the women’s division is Elizabeth Oshoba, a boxer from Nigeria.
Who is Nigeria boxer Elizabeth Oshoba, bio, age, height, weight, family, parents, fight record
Oshoba won the world title and improved her professional bout record to 7-0 when she stopped Michela Braga of Italy in the tenth round of the World Boxing Council (WBC) Silver Female featherweight match.
Nigerian Boxer, Elizabeth Oshoba has emerged as the new WBC Women's Silver Featherweight Champion, after defeating Michela Braga. pic.twitter.com/AFjZ52LjGs
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She gave an incredible effort in round eight, flooring Braga, and then finished her with a final knockout to cap off an outstanding victory. The 24-year-old is thrilled to be making history and has already begun to focus on landing the lead role.
Oshoba is not the sole boxer from Nigeria to have achieved success in the sport. Nigerian boxers Dick Tiger, Hogan Bassey, Samuel Peter, Bash Ali, Anthony Joshua, Helen Joseph, and Efe Ajagba are a few of the most well-known. However, let us have a look at who Elizabeth is.
Who is Elizabeth Oshoba?
Elizabeth Oshoba is a boxer from Nigeria who was born on December 23, 1999. The 24-year-old competed in the Featherweight division of the 2022 Commonwealth Games and took home a silver medal.
Nigerian Boxer, Elizabeth Oshoba emerged the World Champion in women’s featherweight category. Oshoba knocked out Italy’s Michela Braga in the 10th round of World Boxing Council (WBC) Silver Female featherweight bout to claim the world title and extended her professional bout record to 7-0. Her height and weight isn’t known.
The Nigerian won the International Boxing Organisation (IBO) International championship in November 2023 at Swindon, England, defeating Martina Righi of Italy. She took home the silver medal from the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.
Following her unanimous decision victory against Martina Righi in November to claim the IBO female super-featherweight gold, Oshoba has now won two titles in the past two months.
In 2018, Oshoba, who began boxing at the age of 15, became a professional. Her record is 15 wins, 0 defeats, and 10 knockouts. In addition, she presently holds the featherweight titles in both Africa and the Commonwealth.
Oshoba was thrown in with the guys and that helped to create her mental toughness, in contrast to some of her women peers overseas who trained apart from the male fighters.
Elizabeth Oshoba inspired by her father
Oshoba claimed that her father, a boxer, inspired her and pushed her to follow her ambition. As a female boxer in Nigeria, she claimed to have encountered numerous obstacles and discrimination, yet she never gave up on her goal, a report in tekedia.com suggests.