Update: Former World Boxing
Champion Viviane Obenauf Has been sentenced to 16 years in Prison
for Murdering her Husband
by Sue TL Fox
Photos credits/Facebook
December 23, 2022
(DEC 23, 2022) WBAN would
like to give the latest update of the tragedy that occurred in
2020 when female boxer and rising star in the sport was arrested
for the allegations of murdering her much older husband.
This week it has been reported that she has been given a
sentence of 16 years in prison....
I had written on December 6, 2020, when first reporting the
following:
Yesterday morning, I
was notified that there was a news story online on the Dailymail website that reported female professional boxer and
former world champion Viviane Obenauf, 34 years old, of Switzerland had been
taken into custody for the charge of murdering her
61-year-old husband. Viviane and her husband had "tied the
knot" in January 2020 this year. According to the
online media, her newly-married husband had died of massive
injuries from a sustained violent assault.
At this time this is "allegedly" as she has not been convicted and is currently in police custody in Switzerland. Obenauf had retired from
boxing after losing to Katie Taylor in November 2019.
One of Obenauf's most
noted wins came from when she stopped Olympian professional
boxer Natasha Jones by TKO on August 4, 2018, winning the WBA
Super Featherweight title.
In the following video I
posted---she talks about her life and how she
got into boxing. On the narrative (summary only) of the
video interview they wrote the following:
"Viviane Obenauf - Brazilian immigrant lives her dream of
boxing and she wants to write Swiss boxing history with her
quick fists. She confidently says this a few days before a
prestigious match in Paris. Obenauf lives in the Bernese
Oberland on Lake Brienz and is a professional boxer with a Swiss
license. Obenauf was born and raised in Brazil.
On a trip through Europe, she met her ex-husband in Switzerland
and from then on stayed in her adopted home, the Bernese
Oberland. After giving birth to her son seven years ago, she
started boxing - to shed the 30 kilos she gained during
pregnancy. After only one year she became Swiss champion
and four years ago she switched from amateur to professional
boxing. She fights around four fights a year, which now also
earn her some money."
Apparently, Obenauf had had a
history of assaults previously, when on one occasion she had
assaulted an ex-boyfriend by hitting him in the face with her
fists.
The ex-boyfriend reported to Blick
the following incident. He said that she always had
"two faces" and in regards to her temperament---it was
like, "flicking a switch."
In another incident in October of 2016, Viviane had been
apprehended in a London nightclub after punching a man in
retaliation to allegedly being groped during her 30th Birthday
celebration."
