(JUNE 15) WBAN would like to congratulate Regina Halmich, who celebrates this month the 25-year anniversary of being the first German woman to become a world champion in professional boxing. She won the WIBF Flyweight world title on June 10, 1995.

Throughout Halmich’s long-running boxing career in her active time of boxing, she was considered Europe's best-known female boxer.

Halmich fought from March of 1994 to November of 2007. She accumulated an astounding boxing record of 54-1-1 (16KO), and fought for the WIBF titles throughout her career.

Halmich gave up her job as a lawyer's clerk to become a professional boxer in 1993 and competed in the sport until announcing her retirement in 2007. She was trained by Torsten Schmitz and managed by Klaus-Peter Kohl. She held the WIBF world Junior Flyweight, Flyweight and Junior Bantamweight titles as well as the European Junior Flyweight and Flyweight titles.

After the announcement of Halmich’s 25-year anniversary she said, “. I've been criticized a lot, been smiled and insulted many times because I'm a woman. That didn't stop me going my way though. I have always believed in myself and that's what each of us should do."