Powerful Muscular Woman - Melissa Del Valle, American multiple champion in the sport of women's boxing

Melissa Del Valle (born June 2, 1969 in New York) is an American multiple champion in the sport of women's boxing, both at the amateur and professional levels.

A member of a sports-minded family of Puerto Rican immigrants, Del Valle took up boxing in the early 1990s, while her older brother Lou Del Valle was making a name for himself as a light-heavyweight boxer.

Then fighting under her married name of Melissa Salamone, Del Valle won the New York state Golden Gloves title at 132 pounds in both 1996 and 1997. In the latter year, she added the national amateur lightweight title, sweeping all five scorecards in the finals on July 19, 1997.

Del Valle then announced she was joining the professional ranks, debuting on September 5, 1997 with a first-round knockout of Marsha Evans. She followed that up with several more impressive victories, and one year and one week later, she earned her first title shot. On September 12, 1998, Del Valle won a 10-round unanimous decision over Melinda Robinson to claim the vacant WIBF super featherweight title.

Powerful Muscular Woman - Teuta Cuni, Swedish female lightweight boxer

Teuta Cuni (born 1973) is a retired Swedish amateur female lightweight boxer who has also practiced, but not competed in, kickboxing.

Powerful Muscular Woman - Jane Couch, British female boxer

 

Jane Couch, MBE (born 14 August 1968) became the first officially licensed British female boxer in 1998. In a 14-year professional career, she won numerous world titles and announced her retirement from boxing on 1 December 2008. Couch has since become a boxing promoter.

Born in Fleetwood, Lancashire, Couch was expelled from her school in Blackpool and thereafter lived "a life of booze, drugs and street fighting". At the age of 26 she saw a television documentary about women's boxing and decided to try it. In her first official fight, a Muay Thai match, she defeated a policewoman, about which she said "it was brilliant to flatten one [a police officer] and get paid for it".

 

Powerful Muscular Woman - Jaime Clampitt, Canadian boxer

 

Jaime "Hurricane" Clampitt (born on July 8, 1976 in Gravelbourg, Saskatchewan, Canada) is a female Canadian boxer.

 

Strong Woman - Jackie Chavez, American female boxer

Jackie Chavez (born June 1, 1983 in Las Cruces, New Mexico) is an American female boxer in the Super Bantamweight division. She is the IFBA world Super Bantamweight champion, and considered by many to be one of women's boxing's future stars. As far as it is known, she has no relation with Mexican boxing legend Julio César Chávez.

Chavez began her professional boxing career on October 5, 2001, when, at the age of eighteen, she knocked out the more experienced Brandy Leon in three rounds at Acoma, New Mexico.

Her second fight came on December 14 of that year, and she beat Nicole Gallegos by a majority decision in four rounds, also at Acoma.

On March 23, 2002, she had her first fight outside the Acoma area, when she knocked out Evangelina Abeyta in the first round. This fight was held at Pojoaque, New Mexico.

Strong Woman - Nurcan Çarkçı, Turkish female boxer

Nurcan Çarkçı Göksel is a Turkish female boxer. Since the end of 2006, she is member of the sports club Kıraç Municipality in Istanbul, Turkey.

She was a gold medalist in the light middleweight (70 kg) division at the 2nd European Women's Boxing Championship held in Pecs, Hungary between May 11 and 17, 2003. The next year, she won a silver medal at the 3rd European Women's Boxing Championship held in Riccione, Italy between October 3 and 10, 2004. She won a bronze medal at the 3rd World Women's Boxing Championship held between September 25 and October 2, 2005 in Podolsk, Russia. At the 5th AIBA Women's World Boxing Championship held between November 22 and 29, 2008 in Ningbo City, China, Nurcan Çarkçı became a bronze medalist in her division (70 kg).