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UBO Flashback: When Kim Was The World´s Best, UBO Champion

 
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JUNE 8, 2022 / BY UBO PRESS OFFICER

 
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Perhaps the best South Korean female boxer of all time, Ju Hee Kim shined in a time before women's boxing had the attention it does now. 

 
 

But she was arguably the best Light Flyweight on the planet when she won the Universal Boxing Organization™ (UBO) World title In December of 2012, in what turned out to be her final fight.

At the Yeongdeungpo Girls Highschool in Seoul, Kim stopped Thailand´s Rungnapha Kaewkrachang (9-2) in the tenth and final round, taking her record to 17-1-1 (8).

Having turned professional with a draw in 2001, she lost her fourth outing, a challenge for the Korean Flyweight title, but from that point on she never looked back.

In 2004 she won the IFBA World Light Flyweight crown, beating undefeated American Melissa Shaffer (8-0) by unanimous decision.


 
 

Before finishing her career with the UBO world title victory eight years later, she had collected numerous world titles, including the WBA, WBF, WIBF and WIBA.

Had she been active today, there would have been huge fights out there for her, and she would likely have been a bigger star than was the case ten years ago.

 
 
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