From New Zealand Boxrec Editor – Benjamin Watt:
Baby Nansen gets WBF World title opportunity
New Zealand boxer Baby Nansen gets big WBF World title opportunity against Bianca Elmir on March 27th at Club Punchbowl, Punchbowl, NSW, Australia.
Just freshly announced today, Baby Nansen (8 – 4 – 1) gets a big opportunity for a World title shot against Bianca Elmir (5 – 1 – 0). Baby Nansen has had an impressive career with many major opportunities. First big fight opportunity was in New Zealand in 2016 where she fought highly ranked boxer Melissa St Vil (12 – 4 – 0) for the WBC Silver title. In 2018 she fought Mikaela Mayer (12 – 0 – 0) at the historic Madison Square Garden on the Vasiliy Lomachenko vs Jorge Linares world title undercard. The big fight Baby Nansen had was Deanha Hobbs (8 – 1 – 0) for the WBO Asia Pacific title in an extremely close fight.
As well as being the second-highest ranked female boxer in New Zealand and PBCNZ Champion, Baby Nansen is a well-credentialed kickboxer as well, winning over 5 kickboxing/muay thai titles and has fought in over 40 kickboxing bouts. Last year Baby Nansen was nominated for two Gladrap awards (New Zealand’s first and very own Boxing awards) for Female boxer of the year and Best looking female boxer of the year.
Baby Nansen is very excited for this fight. “I got the opportunity through matchmakers in NZ looking for an opponent for Bianca” Baby Said. “Nigel Elliot put me through to Nath Swadling and we went through an application through the board and found out that we both qualify for a world title”.
Baby began her pro boxing career training with John Conway at Rebel Lee Gar. In 2018 Baby moved to highly successful gym City Kickboxing who look after Junior Fa, Hemi Ahio, Israel Adesanya and many more highly successful fighters. The gym has highly credentialed trainers including Eugene Bareman, Doug Viney, Mike Angove, Tristram Apikitoa and Chanel Niumata. Baby has gone the extra mile preparing for this fight as she was training in Thailand at Tiger Muay Thai gym with her partner Sam hill and UFC fighters and sisters Valentina and Antonina Shevchenko. This extra elite training could give her that extra edge to give her the victory.
Baby Nansen started pro boxing career in 2014 with Bianca Elmir debuting in 2017. Bianca Elmir wasn’t very active in her first couple of years as a Professional boxer however after her first title in April 2019, she started fighting more regularly. She won her Australian national title against Rianne Ware. The most credentialed boxer she fought was Shannon O’Connell, in an extremely close fight that ended by Split decision. After that fight, she fought and won two fights ending her year. Now she is looking for a big boost in her boxing career with a WBF World title.
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