Melissa McMorrow is a Brazilian American from San Jose, California. She now lives in San Francisco and trains in San Mateo, California. Melissa is a high action straw-weight prospect.

She began boxing in March of 2005. In March of 2006 Melissa fought and won the 2006 Northern California Golden Gloves flyweight championship by unanimous decision and, later, in July, won the 2006 National Golden Gloves Flyweight Championship by second -round TKO. By the end of the year Melissa earned a 3rd in the nation ranking by USA boxing.

In March of 2007, Melissa captures the USA Jr. Bantamweight championship. She climbed in weight for this tournament due to no opponents in her weight class. Later that year, she competed in the Jr. Flyweight division in the USA Nationals. She lost in the finals 23-22 in a controversial decision to national champion Marlen Esparza. The silver medal earned her a second place ranking for 2007 by USA Boxing. Melissa retained her second place ranking until she turned pro in June of 2008.
Melissa made her pro debut at the Playboy Mansion against Mayela Perez, a much more experienced fighter. In a four round action packed match, Melissa won a unanimous decision over the veteran.

In November of 2008, Melissa fought at the Fight Night at the Tank series at the HP Pavilion. Her opponent was Gloria Salas who was making her pro debut. Melissa won an exciting unanimous decision over Gloria improving her record to 2-0.

In May of 2007, Melissa was again scheduled to fight a four round match at Fight Night at the Tank. With no opponent contracted for the fight, Melissa took a last minute match-up with a much more experienced veteran and former World Champion, Jolene Blackshear. The match was electrifying. Although caught by Blackshear and landing on the canvas in round two, Blackshear was deducted a point for hitting when down. McMorrow won every other round making the match a close one. The match was called a draw at the event but was later changed to a loss when a missed point was found on a referee’s scorecard. The final decision stands at a split decision with two judges giving it to Blackshear by one point.

A week later, wanting vindication for her narrow loss, Melissa took another last minute fight against another veteran, Suszannah Warner, this time for the NAIOP championship belt in a night of championship action at the Irvine Marriott. The 6 round match started slow for McMorrow. McMorrow, being the much shorter fighter of the two, found her way inside after the second round and worked tirelessly for a split decision win with two judges giving the fight to McMorrow, four rounds to two.

After Warner, Melissa was challenged twice by Amaris Quintana. The first meeting of the two was an action packed draw in which both fighters traded evenly. In the rematch, however, McMorrow came out on top delivering strong blows that left Quintana with one eye swollen shut. However, the judges called it a controversial draw.

Melissa then fought a rematch and trilogy match with Gloria Salas. The trilogy match was in defense of her NAIOP championship belt at the Irvine Marriott in which McMorrow decidedly retained the belt in a six round action packed fight.

Melissa is looking forward to what her career will bring in the future. She trains 6 days a week at B Street Boxing Gym in San Mateo, California. Melissa is a very self demanding and persevering athlete. She is a strong, hard hitting, high activity, and relentless fighter. Her endurance, mental strength, confidence, and dexterity are powerful assets to her boxing skills.

Melissa has always been a top level athlete. She grew up playing soccer and was an All-American in college then moved on to play semi-pro soccer in both the US and Brazil. After playing soccer for 18 years, the disbanding of the Women's United Soccer Association (WUSA), the only women's professional soccer league, left her with nothing left to strive for. She began searching for another competitive outlet. Having always been captivated by boxing, she fell in love with the sport by attending sparring events in Oakland, California. She credits the diverse, prolific, and cosmopolitan Bay Area with the impetus for her pursuit of a boxing career.

Outside of boxing, Melissa works full time for SolarCity, a growing company in the alternative energy sector focused on solar panel installation, where she manages commercial projects and is pursuing an architecture license. She has an architecture degree from Carnegie Mellon University, a prestigious school whose architecture department stresses sustainable building and building applications. Melissa is extremely dedicated to creating a better world through sustainable buildings, alternative energy, and other environmentally friendly practices.

Melissa strives for excellence in everything she does which has earned her the nickname of “Mighty”. She hopes to send the message to everyone, especially women, that you can indeed make dreams a reality. Melissa is especially dedicated to this cause and hopes to inspire people to dream big through her boxing. Melissa also works with various non-profits to help promote education for women and children so they can have a good basis to fulfill dreams of their own.