Mayerlin Rivas
Boxer
マイヤリン・リバス
- Born
- 5 December 1987
- Sport
- boxing
- Occupation
- boxer
Mayerlin de los Ángeles Rivas Pomares (born 5 December 1987) is a Venezuelan professional boxer. Nicknamed La Monita, she is a former world champion in two weight classes, having held the World Boxing Association (WBA) female bantamweight title from 2015 to 2020 and the WBA female super bantamweight title from 2020 to 2023. She unsuccessfully challenged twice for bantamweight titles in 2012 and once for the International Boxing Federation (IBF) female super bantamweight title in 2018.
Rivas made her professional debut in 2007, won the WBA interim bantamweight title in 2014, and made four defences of the full title before moving up in weight. She won the vacant WBA super bantamweight title in 2020, retained it twice, and lost it by majority decision in November 2023. She has also competed professionally in mixed martial arts.
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