Women's boxing is not to everyone's liking. Nevertheless, this sport exists, and it also has its own champions. One of the leaders of the world women's boxing league is Natalia Ragozina, which will be discussed in this article.
Birth
The future owner of the championship belts was born on April 5, 1976. Her homeland is the city of Abay, located in the Karaganda region of the then still existing USSR. The girl’s father is Russian, and her mother is a representative of the Tatar people.
Childhood
From an early age, Natalia Ragozina was accustomed to sports. Initially, she paid close attention to athletics, ran middle distances, and even managed to win the Asian Championship. In 1993, the young athlete, together with her parents, moved to Nizhny Tagil, where she began to kickboxing. Mom and dad girls were very upset when they found out that their beloved daughter was planning to become a professional fighter.
Success
In kickboxing, Natalia Ragozina was able to become the champion of the Russian Federation five times, win the Asian championship, twice won the World Cup and did not lose at all in one match. In 1999, she switched to amateur boxing, and in 2004 she became a professional.
Career in the pros
Already in the first year of performing at the pro-ring, the Russian woman managed to win four times, and all the fights ended ahead of schedule. In 2006, the girl moved to Germany, where she signed a contract with SES-Boxgym. In total, for her sporting life, Natalia Ragozina held 22 matches, in all of which she won. At the same time, she ended 13 fights with a knockout.
An interesting fact: the athlete spent her last fight in the heavyweight category, since in her division all the rivals refused to box with her. As a result, Natalia Ragozina, whose biography inspires respect, was able to knock out the current world champion Pamela London. In June 2011, Ragozina planned to hold her last fight, which was supposed to be the twenty-third in her career, but it was canceled due to the fact that all the applicants refused the invitation to fight with the Russian woman.
Life outside the ring
Of course, Natalia Ragozina is a boxing champion, but first of all, she is still a woman, and everything feminine, of course, is not at all alien to her. The athlete has excellent anthropometric data, and therefore it is not surprising that she also worked as a model, and in 2007 she starred completely naked at a photo shoot for the glossy edition of Sim.
Natalya also claims to be a believer and regularly goes to church and puts candles.
Ragozin did not pass around the cinema either. In 2008, she participated in the filming of a film called The Polar Bear.
As for his personal life, the athlete, being at the peak of her boxing career, met Mikhail, who was a businessman and a hand-to-hand fighter. It is worth noting that both before the wedding and after the husband was very jealous of Natalia and constantly demanded that she leave the sport. And when she began to train again after childbirth and lost 17 kg for the sake of fighting in the ring, he first did not let her go to the training camp, and then completely beat her. Ragozina could not stand such an attitude and, taking her son, divorced.
In the summer of 2015, Natalya attended combat sambo competitions, where she sat in the audience hall side by side with the country's president Vladimir Putin. The press very quickly attributed the novel to them, but no supporting information on this subject has yet appeared.
By the way, once in her life, Natalia had to apply her skills on the street. It happened in Moscow when two men attacked her. But the athlete was not taken aback and beat the attackers.