2023-06-24 18:39:45
Women’s boxing in Tunisia, like most women’s sports, does not receive much attention from the authorities and the support of the public and clubs. However, this did not prevent the emergence of champions who made their way steadily, led by Tunisian boxing, Ikram Croats.
In recent years, the name of Ikram Croats has emerged strongly in the “noble art”, after she succeeded in overthrowing female boxers with a global reputation in the game.
Croat, who in 2018 was the first female boxer in Africa and the Middle East to win the World Boxing Council title, after achieving a number of victories in world lightweight championships, is looking forward to a new global achievement when she faces Nigerian Akinsanya Abusidi on Saturday evening in Germany in the World Boxing Championship fight ( Double UPF World).
Ikram Croat has a brilliant career, but her fight today, Saturday, will be a challenge to add a new title and rise to higher ranks in the international professional boxers ranking.
From judo to boxing
Ikram Croat, born in 1984, is one of the few female boxers in the Arab world who decided to break into the world of “noble art” and knock on the doors of professionalism, especially after her emigration to the German city of Frankfurt, where she spent her childhood there.
Ikram Croat’s march started from the Tunisian city of Beja (northwest), where boxing was born in a humble family, and she practiced judo since the age of four, before deciding at the age of nine to change her specialization and practice boxing. In the year 1997, Ikram immigrated with her family to the German city of Frankfurt, to join a club in the sport of noble art, and to run a difficult race in order to prove herself and emerge in a sport in which success at that time was not easy. In February 2018, Croat’s career witnessed the first significant turning point in her path to success, when she defeated American boxer Angel Gladney in a match in Florida, USA, to become the world champion in women’s boxing in the lightweight category.
The international referee and boxing expert, Helmy Al-Sahili, told Sky News Arabia, “Ikram Croat is the only Tunisian female boxer who continued in the sport of noble art with a firm grip and great determination. Parson”.
Al-Sahili adds, “Ikram’s last fight was in November 2022, and here she is returning with new ambitions to fight her first fight this year in the weight of the Walter (between 63 and 67 kilograms). The Tunisian list is abundant to win the title of the World Championship (Double UPF World).
Good international ranking
According to Al-Sahili, who is the most prominent Tunisian international referee, and an expert specializing in the sport of noble art, “Ikram Croat has so far fought 15 opponents, which has ranked her well by being ranked 53 in the world, and her contract with manager Roy Jones, who is one of the former world champions in boxing, helped her a lot.” .
Ikram Croat began to compete in official matches in Germany, and at the beginning of her career she won the title of the “Rhine” championship, which is an amateur tournament, to rank third in the German championship, and at the age of twenty-five, she moved to Berlin with the aim of focusing on her career, and she ranked third in the German Championship in 2008 2010. In 2015, she entered the world of professionalism, specifically on February 27, when she appeared for the first time in the Universal Hall in Berlin, in front of Sandy Weber, in a match that was stopped by the referee since the first round shortly after its start, after the referee recognized the mismatch and convergence of the level and announced The Tunisian and German female boxer won. On August 1, 2015, Croats repeated the same feat in a fight against Poland’s Danka Kruzek, winning the first round by knockout after one minute and 10 seconds. Over the course of her professional career, Ikram fought 15 fights, winning 12 of them and losing 3 fights. The best ranking was her 13th place in 2018.
Hard reality
The sport of boxing in Tunisia lives on the impact of many obstacles and obstacles that limited the emergence of Tunisian women boxers in international and Olympic competitions due to the absence of a clear strategy by the Tunisian Federation for the game and its supervisors, whether in teams or clubs, according to Helmy Sassi’s statement to “Sky News Arabia”.
Tunisia was the first Arab country to officially adopt women’s boxing, and it has also participated in the boxing competition in the Olympic Games since its adoption for the first time in the 2012 London Olympics, thanks to Reem Al-Juweni and Marwa Al-Rahali. In the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Tunisian women’s boxing participated again in the Olympic Games, and Kholoud Al-Halimi and Maryam Al-Zayani were satisfied with the first round. Support, according to many experts in the game.
The new office of the Tunisian Boxing Federation, which assumed its duties at the beginning of this year, is working to reconsider the reality of women’s boxing in Tunisia and develop a plan aimed at qualifying a number of female boxers for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
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