Ã…sa Sandell

Åsa Maria Sandell ( born January 24, 1967 in Hovsta, community Örebro, Sweden) is a Swedish boxer, journalist and writer.

Career

Amateur career

Åsa Sandell operation in their youth different sports, but then focused on the game of basketball and was active in the sport at a sports club in Örebro. She then took at the University of Lund to a journalism and literature studies, which she completed successfully. After graduating she was in the newspapers " Dagens Nyheter " and " Helsingborg Dagbladet " employed, but has been working freelance for quite some time.

In the mid- 1990s, the women's boxing slowly reached into Sweden foot, she was one of the first, going about this sport. It began in 1995 in Örebro with the boxing training and denied in the same year their first fight. There was in the time from 1995 relatively few starting opportunities for women, so that the number of their battles remained relatively low. At the end of her career as an amateur boxer in 2000 Åsa Sandell had therefore denied only 23 fights, of which they won 21. It was four times Swedish champion in the middleweight ( 75 kg body weight). In 1999, she lost in the final of the Swedish Championships middleweight against Anna Laurell on points.

In 1997, she started in Gothenburg in the very first international match, the one Swedish Women's Boxstaffel denied against the Canadian Patty Satok and defeated this clear with 15:0 points. In 1999, she started in Köping (Sweden) at the 1st Women's European Cup, a predecessor Competition of the European Championships for women. It was there in the middleweight division only two women at the start, so that they equal the final battle of the Russian Natalija Ragosina, the later women's professional world champion, faced. This battle, they lost convincingly on points ( 3:15 ).

In 2000, she started at the 2nd Women's European Cup in Macon / France and won there over Savka Stoklasova from the Czech Republic by Disq. i.d. 3rd round and fight for victory over Olga from Russia Maltsewa convincingly on points (7:0). After this success, she ended her amateur career.

Professional career

Åsa Sandell was inactive as a boxer a few years after the end of her amateur career. But she decided to go the end of 2003 in the camp of the professional boxer. As the professional boxing was forbidden in Sweden, she had to go to the United States. It was, therefore, based in New York and trained at Gleason 's Gym Box. On 30 May 2004, she played in Washington, District of Columbia, their first fight, they middleweight against the US-American Tabitha Rosario by Technical KO id 3rd round won. She was at that time already 37 years old. On January 29, 2005, she defeated at the Silverton Hotel Casino in Las Vegas Bose Ijoala from the United States in a four-round continuous fight convincingly on points. Against the US-American Yolanda Swindell then reached in Nevada in a bout scheduled for six rounds a draw. They then defeated on 18 June 2005 in Edmonton, Canada, Donna Logue from Canada by Technical Knockout in the second round. On 8 August 2005 Åsa Sandell suffered then in Nevada against the US- American Laura Ramsey their first defeat. A judge was doing with 57:56 points her victory, while two judges for Laura Ramsey decided ( 56:57 and 55:58 ).

On 17 December 2005, it fought in the Max -Schmeling-Halle in Berlin against the US-American Laila Ali. Laila Ali, daughter of Muhammad Ali at that time had all 22 professional fights that they had denied won, and was World Champion in several professional boxing associations. Åsa Sandell had no chance against the much younger Laila Ali and lost that fight by technical knockout in the fifth round. She lost on June 17, 2006 in Winston- Salem, North Carolina, against the Nigerian Ijeoma Egbunine by technical knockout in the second round.

Åsa Sandell but won the next three battles: On 19 October 2006 she defeated in New York Cimberly Harris from the United States by points ( 60:54, 60:54 and 59:55 ). On January 27, 2007, she denied then in the Scandinavium Arena in Gothenburg a historical battle. She fought against the US-American Tiffany Carter in the first pro fight, which took place in Sweden after the abolition of professional boxing ban again. She won this fight in the 4th round by task. Your last two fights as a professional boxer was able to complete it in Sweden then also. On 31 March 2007 she struck the Liseberghallen in Gothenburg Dakota Stone of the U.S. on points and on 15 September 2007, she fought in the Lofberg arenes in Karlstad against Teres Perozzi of Bermuda undecided. This fight was the only title fight, it was about the World Boxing Empire middleweight title and the World Boxing Council International Championship, which she denied.

After this fight Åsa Sandell ended her career boxers. She now lives in Kungsholmen in Stockholm and works as a writer, lecturer and Boxtrainerin.