Super
Welterweight Marianne Ahlborg, of Gothenburg, Sweden,
began boxing later in life a the age of 21 years old.
She also was very active with other different sports during her
whole life, and one in particular was participating in soccer.
Ahlborg told
WBAN, "I got tired of that and decided to try something new and
I thought that boxing would suit me as I always have loved hard
physical training and have always been a strong and tough girl."
"For the first
time I stepped into a boxing club I fell in love, " added
Ahlborg.
Ahlborg said that from the beginning of getting into boxing, she
thought that she would only train in the sport and not compete.
But in retrospect she realized that she was wrong because of her
natural competitive nature, and loving to win!
I did my first
fight and after that it went fast forward for me. I fought
anyone. No matter how much more experience the girls had
compared to me or how many more fights than me, it didn't
mattered.
Having close to
80 fights as an amateur, becoming a two-times Swedish Champion,
and representing the National Team at many of the world's
biggest tournaments, she decided to turn pro.
On December 19, 2020, at the Universum
Gym, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, Ahlorg, 152.5, making her pro debut,
she won a four-round
unanimous decision over Borislava Goranova, 155½. The fight was
a Universum Box-Promotion Event. Full fight video below:
On February 20, 2021,
at the Universum Gym,
Hamburg, Germany, Ahlborg won a six-round unanimous decision over
Aleksandra Rapaic. In a second female bout, super lightweight Naomi Mannes
won by an RTD over Kim Angelina Jaeckel.
WBAN asked
Ahlborg what she would like to accomplish in the sport, and she
said, "My goal is to become world champion."
"I have never have given up and I want to convey it to other
girls---never give up, follow your dream no matter what others
around you think," added Ahlborg.
