5'6" Jessica "CasKILLA" McCaskill,
raised in southern Illinois she participated in
almost every sport except boxing. McCaskill is a graduate of
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville with a Communications
degree. [Courtesy photo top/ by Stephen Blea]
After college is where her boxing journey began. She
began boxing in 2008 purely for fitness. In April of 2009 McCaskill had her first amateur bout.
Out of St. Louis she climbed the ranks and won the 2010 Golden
Gloves.
In 2012, McCaskill relocated to
begin a career in the
future's industry. When boxing in the amateurs she was
representing Chicago, Illinois, and at that time she
held two additional Golden Glove Championship belts from 2014
and
2015. With her amateur career behind her Jessica “CasKILLA” McCaskill signed with Rick Ramos Boxing in August of 2015 to
manage her career.
After starting in the Lightweight division McCaskill then moved
up to Super Lightweight to dethrone both the WBC and WBA champions
in 2018-2019. McCaskill then became Unified and Undisputed
Welterweight Champion in 2020 being the first fighter to hand
her opponent a loss.
McCaskill made history with Warrior’s Boxing Promotions being
their first female fighter to sign a promotional contract. She
was the first female fighter to fight on DAZN USA. She is ranked
as the number one female Welterweight in the U.S. and in the
world with a current record of only 9-2 with 3 KOs, as of
December 2020.
Some of the highlights of her professional boxing career:
In 2017, fighting four times that year, she defeated Carla
Torres, Brenda Gonzales, Natalie Brown, and one fight with Katie
Taylor where she lost by a unanimous decision for a WBA World
title bout.
On October 6, 2018, at the Wintrust Arena, in Illinois,
Chicago, McCaskill, now 6-2-0 (3KO), of Chicago, Illinois, won by a
ten-round unanimous decision over Erica Farias, now 26-3-0 (10KO), of
Buenos Aires, Argentina. Farias was defending her WBC Super
lightweight title. McCaskill became the new WBC title holder.
In May of 2019, at the MGM National Harbor,
in Oxon
Hill, Maryland McCaskill, 138¾, won a
ten-round unanimous decision over Anahi Sanchez, 138. The two were
fighting for the WBA and WBC super lightweight world titles. The final
judges scores were 99-91, 96-94, and 98-92. McCaskill was defending
her WBC title.
Later that year, she fought at the Wintrust Arena, Chicago,
Illinois, in October of 2019, where in a rematch she won a ten-round majority
decision over Erica Farias, 138¾, OF Buenos Aires, Argentina.
The two were fighting for the WBC and WBA Super Lightweight title.
In one of the most high-profile fights that McCaskill had took place
on August 15, 2020, in Downtown Tulsa,
Oklahoma, featured in the
mainliner, that was a scheduled ten-round unification world
title bout, McCaskill defeated Cecilia Braekhus who was defending her
WBO, WBC, IBO, WBA, IBF Welterweight world title bouts. The bout was
live on DAZN. McCaskill improved her record to 9-2-0 (3KO), and
Braekhus experiencing her first defeat in the sport, is now 36-1-0
(9KO).
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McCaskill has been recognized
many times with WBAN that includes the following: 2018
November Fighter of the Month; 2019 November Fighter of the
Month; Best-Kept Secret 2018 Fighter of the year; and 2019
Hottest Boxing Rising Star for the year. [Photo credits:
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